Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Auslese Reiler Nr5
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Typically best enjoyed 10–40 years from vintage release.
🍽️ wine.food_pairings
blue cheese, fruit tarts, spicy Thai curry
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Crafted from the legendary, precipitously steep slopes of the Wolfer Goldgrube vineyard, this Riesling Auslese represents the pinnacle of Weingut Vollenweider's late-harvest craftsmanship. The vineyard's name, meaning 'golden grave,' refers to the shimmering, iron-rich blue slate soils that yield wines of extraordinary mineral intensity. Daniel Vollenweider dedicated his life to restoring these forgotten, ancient, ungrafted vines. For this Auslese, botrytized grapes are painstakingly selected berry-by-berry during harvest. The wine is fermented slowly with indigenous yeasts, capturing a sublime tension between luscious, honeyed tropical fruit sweetness and a piercing, vibrant spine of slate-driven acidity that defines the classic Mosel style.
🍾 wine.about_producer
Established in 2000 by the late Swiss winemaker Daniel Vollenweider, Weingut Vollenweider is located in Traben-Trarbach in the Mosel region of Germany. The estate is renowned for reclaiming and preserving historic, extremely steep vineyards, most notably the Wolfer Goldgrube, which features ancient, ungrafted Riesling vines. Operating with a philosophy of meticulous manual labor, low yields, and minimal intervention in the cellar, the winery crafts highly precise, mineral-driven white wines, particularly their legendary, tension-filled Riesling Auslese expressions.