Volz Riesling GG
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared scallops, roasted pork belly, creamy poultry dishes
✨ Technical Specifications
The Volz vineyard is a historic, south-facing steep-slope parcel nestled within the famous Wiltinger Braunfels site along the Saar. Renowned for its unique terroir, this parcel is characterized by highly weathered, iron-rich Devonian slate soils that impart a distinctively smoky, salty minerality to the wine. In the historic Prussian vineyard classification of 1868, Volz was singled out and rated in the absolute highest category, a testament to its exceptional quality. Van Volxem crafts this Grosses Gewächs (GG) using traditional methods, including hand-harvesting, spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, and extended aging in large, neutral oak fuder casks. The resulting wine is a dry, powerful, yet incredibly elegant Riesling that showcases the tension between ripe stone fruit, vibrant Saar acidity, and deep, texturing minerality.
🍾 About the Producer
Perched dramatically above the Saar River in Wiltingen, Weingut Van Volxem is one of Germany's most heralded historic wine estates. Originating as a Roman villa complex with viticulture traced back to the 3rd century, the property operated as a Jesuit monastery winery established in 1743 before being acquired post-secularization by Brussels brewer Gustav van Volxem. In late 1999, Roman Niewodniczanski acquired the estate and orchestrated an ambitious renaissance, revitalizing storied steep-slope vineyards and inaugurating a state-of-the-art gravity-fed winery atop the Wiltinger Schlossberg. Managing approximately 85 hectares on Devonian slate across top-tier VDP.Grosse Lage sites—such as Scharzhofberger, Wiltinger Gottesfuß, Volz, and Ockfener Bockstein—the estate works predominantly with old, ungrafted Riesling vines. Practicing sustainable, non-interventional viticulture, cellar master Dominik Völk champions spontaneous wild-yeast fermentations and extended aging in neutral oak and stainless steel. Van Volxem produces intensely mineral, low-alcohol, dry-leaning Rieslings and refined sparkling Sekts that revive the aristocratic, turn-of-the-century prestige of traditional Saar wines.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12% - 12.5%