This is, without question, one of the finest dry wines to ever come from this estate. It is nothing less than a dry wine masterpiece.
If the Vollenweider estate has been on the periphery of stardom for two decades, there is some reason to think it may now be positioned for the white-hot spotlight.
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Daniel Vollenweider, who passed away in the summer of 2022, is smiling from the beyond. His protégé, the young Moritz Hoffmann, has now taken over the estate and has produced a simply breathtaking collection of dry 2022ers, topped by one of the most talked-about dry Rieslings of this vintage in the Mosel.
We are hardly ones to lean into critics and points, yet the 2022 Grand Cru Goldgrube was, in the most recent Mosel Fine Wines review, nearly the highest scoring dry Riesling... beaten only by Julian Haart's 2023 Grand Cru Ohligsberg, a ghost of a wine and easily one of the great dry wines of the Mosel.
Today we offer a rare parcel of this dry Riesling at as low as $54.95 on the three-pack purchase.
While Daniel's dry wines also walked a line between finesse and power, Moritz has shown he is more interested in finesse and intensity.
Vollenweider's Goldgrube is sourced from old, ungrafted vines and the wine has a startling purity, a cool and incisive cut of mint and lime, a supreme detail of dried herbs, and a truly electric core of citrus oils. There is a profound clarity to the flavor and extraordinary length.
The style walks the line between the statuesque perfection of the dry wines of Julian Haart and the more salt-and-iron-driven wines of Weiser-Künstler. However, it's truly unique. The wine has authority and its own signature.
If you have been tasting Vollenweider's wines for years, this is the next chapter and it's a story that feels uplifting, literally and figuratively, after the tragic death of Daniel.
Moritz Hoffmann does not have an easy road ahead; life working old vines on the steep slopes of the Mosel is never simple. Yet he has proven, unquestionably, that this is an estate with a new vitality, a new energy, and people are talking about this wine.
Quantities are quite limited. Don't miss this.
To order, email offers@crushwineco.com or call the store at (212) 980-9463.
Joe Salamone
Wine Buyer
Crush Wine & Spirits
Mosel Fine Wines: "The 2022er Goldgrube Riesling, as it is referred to on the consumer label, is a bone-dry wine made from fruit harvested on up to 120-year-old ungrafted vines and was left for 1 year on its gross lees. It has a beautifully and finely reductive and very herbal nose of minty thyme, rosemary, white pepper, spearmint, flintstone, and other wild herbs, before showing fine scents of white flowers and lime tree. The wine starts off on a slightly round and creamy side, yet an acidic backbone clearly comes through and leads to a straight and quite spicy long finish. This defies the richer side of the 2022 vintage and proves superbly refined and playful. The aftertaste is all about smoke and white flowers and proves bone-dry in taste."
Special 3-pack pricing for a limited time. Use Code: Goldgrube22