Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Auslese Reiler Nr5
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, fruit tarts, spicy Thai curry
✨ Technical Specifications
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.
🍾 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