Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling BA Nr.8
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
creamy blue cheese, apple tarte tatin, rich duck liver pâté
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wolfer Goldgrube, or 'golden grave,' is a legendary steep-slope vineyard in the Mosel, named for the golden hue of its weathered Devonian slate and the backbreaking labor required to work it. Weingut Vollenweider's Beerenauslese Nr. 8 represents the pinnacle of this terroir's sweet wine expression. Crafted from painstakingly hand-selected, botrytis-affected berries harvested from ancient, ungrafted Riesling vines, this rare elixir undergoes a slow, natural fermentation. The result is a wine of breathtaking contrast—opulent, honeyed sweetness juxtaposed against a laser-like beam of slate-driven acidity. It stands as a profound tribute to the late Daniel Vollenweider's vision of restoring forgotten, historic vineyards to their rightful glory.
🍾 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