Transcending Its Category
2015 Egon Müller Scharzhof QbA

Posted by Joe Salamone

The deal with Müller's 2015s is well known by now. It's an absolutely brilliant collection.

It wouldn't be out of line to say that Egon Müller's 2015 line-up is his most exciting collection in decades. Egon Müller compares his 2015s with his 1990s, which are absolutely stunning.

In 2015, Müller produced a really impressive Scharzhof QbA. This is a bottle that we always love, but the 2015 has blazing purity, impressive concentration and great structure.

In any vintage, Müller's QbA is a dead serious and thrilling bottle of Riesling. Typically QbA is a humble category, housing producers' "Estate" wines. They can be nice wines, but seldom are they profound. Müller's QbA transcends the entire designation. It's without peer.

The 2015 QbA really dazzles with how complicated it is and how much it demands to be cellared. This is the rare QbA you'd be wise to forget about for a decade.

Müller's QbA is sourced from vines in Saarburg, Kanzem, Wawern, Oberemmel and often some Scharzhofberger finds its way into the blend. The combination of top vineyards and Müller's intense dedication and spare-no-expense winemaking leave an obvious mark on the wine.

I'll close with a warning: This is a small parcel and I'm anticipating a need to allocate. Please give us your ideal order and we'll do our best.

To order, please email us at offers@crushwineco.com or call the store at (212) 980-9463.

Joe Salamone


Wine Buyer
Crush Wine & Spirits

2015 Egon Müller Scharzhof QbA

John Gilman, View from the Cellar, "I learned on this trip that the superb estate Riesling from Weingut Egon Müller includes a sizable chunk of Saarburger Rausch in its blend, as the estate has a fine parcel in this vineyard that they choose not to bottle on its own. While part of my heart yearns to taste a Rausch bottling from Egon Müller, the realization that a significant percentage of the blend of this fine villages level bottling is from such a grand cru vineyard makes this wine even more attractive. The 2015 is a stellar wine, offering up a pure and classy nose of apple, lime, a touch of cress, a beautiful base of slate and a gentle topnote of petrol. On the palate the wine is fullish, pure and vibrant, with lovely nascent complexity, bright, zesty acids and outstanding focus and grip on the very promising finish. This will need a few years in the cellar to develop some of its secondary layers of complexity and should age long and gracefully."

Special 3-Pack Price: $149.85 ($49.95/btl)