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Egon Müller Scharzhof

Two thousand thirteen was a difficult vintage for this illustrious estate. When I arrived in August to taste the young wines, there were only five bottles on the round table in the entrance hall where Egon Müller receives his guests to show the new line-up. “That is all we made,” he told me, with that quirky smile that he always seems to wear when saying things that may come as a surprise. In fact, he made absolutely no wine from the Wiltinger Braune Kupp under his Le Gallais label this year and managed to produce only one Spätlese and one Auslese in 2013, but at a considerable price: “We had only 30% of a normal crop,” he lamented. His family has been handcrafting Rieslings from their eight hectares of Scharzhofberg for generations and has continually resisted the temptation to expand their holdings to meet demand. Given the quality and rarity of his Kabinetts, it is not surprising that the auction bottling often fetches breathtaking prices in Trier each September.

From 2013 Germany (Mar 2015) by Joel B. Payne

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2013 Riesling Scharzhof

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