Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Essenz
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, fruit tarts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wolfer Goldgrube, or 'golden grave,' is a legendary, amphitheater-shaped vineyard in the Mosel, named for both the golden hue of its autumn foliage and the glittering pyrite found in its steep slate soils. Weingut Vollenweider's 'Essenz' represents the absolute zenith of this site's potential. Crafted only in exceptional vintages from painstakingly hand-selected, botrytized grapes harvested from ancient, ungrafted Riesling vines, this rare nectar undergoes an incredibly slow, natural fermentation. The resulting wine is a masterclass in tension, balancing luscious, honeyed sweetness with the piercing, electric acidity and deep mineral drive characteristic of the Mosel's finest steep-slope terroirs.
🍾 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