Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling BA
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit tarts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted from the legendary, dizzyingly steep slopes of the Wolfer Goldgrube vineyard in the Mosel, this Beerenauslese (BA) is a testament to the late Daniel Vollenweider's vision of reviving neglected, ancient vineyards. The vineyard's name, 'Goldgrube' (Gold Mine), reflects both the golden hue of its slate soils in the sunlight and the liquid gold produced from its ungrafted, pre-phylloxera Riesling vines. To create this rare sweet wine, botrytised grapes are meticulously hand-harvested berry by berry under extreme conditions. The resulting wine is a masterclass in tension, where the intense, honeyed concentration of noble rot is perfectly counterbalanced by the Mosel's signature electric acidity and deep, salty slate minerality.
🍾 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