Krover Steffensberg Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, foie gras, fruit-based desserts
✨ Technical Specifications
The Kröver Steffensberg vineyard is a historic, steep, south-southwest-facing slope in the Mosel, characterized by deep, weathered grey slate soils rich in iron, which imparts a distinct mineral complexity to the wine. Weingut Vollenweider's Kröver Steffensberg Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel represents the pinnacle of sweet winemaking from this site. Crafted from meticulously hand-selected, botrytis-affected grapes, this Goldkapsel (gold capsule) bottling denotes an Auslese of superior richness and concentration. Fermented naturally with indigenous yeasts, the wine beautifully balances opulent sweetness—filled with notes of honeyed stone fruits, exotic spices, and white flowers—with the Mosel's trademark vibrant, electric acidity, ensuring a long, legendary life in the cellar.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1999 by Swiss native Daniel Vollenweider, Weingut Vollenweider is based in Traben-Trarbach in Germany's celebrated Mosel valley. Without family land or inherited infrastructure, Vollenweider dedicated himself to reviving neglected, century-old ungrafted vines clinging to the dramatic, slate-rich amphitheater of the Wolfer Goldgrube. Through meticulous, hands-on cultivation of these extreme steep slopes and traditional, low-intervention cellar work, the estate became a beacon of pure Mosel expression. Today, Weingut Vollenweider is internationally revered for its crystalline, mineral-laden Rieslings, particularly its legendary, highly collectible Auslese and Goldkapsel dessert wines.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
7-8.5%