Wolfer Goldgrube Riesling Spatlese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roast pork belly with glazed spiced apples, spicy Thai red curry with duck, Munster cheese with cumin
✨ Technical Specifications
Wolfer Goldgrube is characterized by an amphitheater-shaped south to south-southwest slope packed with weathered Devonian blue and grey slate. This Goldkapsel Spätlese is harvested from old, un-grafted Riesling vines perched on dizzying gradients, frequently selected from botrytis-touched or ultra-ripe golden clusters. Spontaneous ambient yeast fermentation takes place slowly in neutral oak Fuder casks and stainless steel, arrested naturally by cooling to preserve intense residual sugar and pristine natural acidity without any fining or deacidification.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 2000 by the late Swiss visionary Daniel Vollenweider, Weingut Vollenweider played a pivotal role in revitalizing the forgotten, precipitously steep slopes of the Middle Mosel. Vollenweider began with just over one hectare in the historic Wolfer Goldgrube, salvaging centenarian, ungrafted Riesling vines trained in the traditional Mosel single-pole system. Following Vollenweider's passing in 2022, partner Moritz Hoffmann assumed leadership, maintaining heroic viticultural standards and securing certified organic status. Terroir here is dominated by weathered Devonian blue and grey slate forming a natural south-facing amphitheater overlooking the Mosel River. In the cellar, non-interventionist philosophies prevail: hand-harvested fruit undergoes spontaneous native-yeast fermentation in neutral oak casks and stainless steel, followed by extended lees aging. The estate's benchmark bottlings—such as the Wolfer Goldgrube Trocken, parcel selections like Unterste Jonpfad, and crystalline Prädikat expressions—are celebrated for their taut structural tension, electrifying natural acidity, deep mid-palate density, and profound slate salinity.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
7-8.5%