Egon Müller-Scharzhof

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Egon Müller opens the 2007 auction of the VDP Großer Ring in the Europahalle Trier

The Egon Müller-Scharzhof winery is a family business run by Egon Müller IV in Wiltingen and one of the most famous wineries on the Saar . The Egon Müller family is a member of the Primum Familiae Vini association .

history

In the foreground the neo-baroque Neue Scharzhof, the seat of the winery

In 1797, as part of the revolutionary transformation of the French state, the ancestors of the Egon Müller took over vineyards in the municipality of Wiltingen , which had previously been in the possession of the St. Maria ad Martyres monastery as church property since medieval times . Since then, the area, which was briefly managed nationally as a Bien , has been family-owned; For four generations it has been managed by an Egon Müller.

Egon Müller III directed the company's quality policy towards high-class products and bought vine plots that became vacant, such as those of the "Le Gallais" winery in 1954. With this purchase, 2.5 hectares were in the individual layers "Wiltinger Kupp" and "Wiltinger brown Kupp" connected. Other plots followed in the immediate vicinity of Wiltingen. "Le Gallais" originally belonged to the Metz family, the founding family of Arbed . Egon Müller III took over the winery from his mother in 1945, who had managed it until the end of the war. In preparation for his task, he attended a two-semester management course at the state teaching and research institute for viticulture, horticulture and agriculture in Trier in 1947/48.

The Egon Müller-Scharzhof winery owns vineyards in the Moselle wine-growing region and produces around 80,000 bottles of Saar wine per year on 16 hectares .

Scharzhofberg

Scharzhofberg, including the large new Scharzhof in the foreground

27.3 hectares of a slope east of the Scharzhof are marketed under the name Scharzhofberger . The Egon Müller winery manages part of it, it is the eponymous location of the winery. The Scharzhofberg vineyard extends about two kilometers outside of Wiltingen in the direction of Oberemmel on a Devonian slate slope facing exactly south . It is part of the large Scharzberg site in the Moselle wine-growing region.

Wines

The wines are hardly known in Germany, but even more so on the international stage. Müller's Beeren- und Trockenbeerenauslese and the ice wines achieve top prices . The wines are not sold “by vintage”, some wines are only offered as rarities after they have been sufficiently matured in the bottle . Only about five percent of an average harvest is touted at the annual auctions of the Great Ring Mosel-Saar-Ruwer , chaired by Egon Müller IV. A Trockenbeerenauslese from the summer of the century 2003 achieved the highest price for a young wine to date.

Quotes

"The rich and classy Scharzhofberger Riesling is one of the best wines in the world in its vintage vintages."

- Hugh Johnson : Little Johnson

literature

Movies

  • Myth Scharzhofberg - The most expensive white vineyard in the world. Documentary, Germany, 2017, 29:37 min., Script and director: Paul Weber, production: SWR , series: made in Südwest , first broadcast: November 22, 2017 on SWR television , synopsis from ARD , online video , available until 17th October 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Hornickel: The top wines in Europe . Seewald Verlag, Stuttgart 1963.
  2. ↑ Friedrich A. Cornelssen: The great book of German wine . Seewald Verlag 1977, ISBN 3-512-00416-4 .
  3. ↑ Giuseppe Lauria: Location portrait: Myth Scharzhofberg - the great vertical. In: wine-sensation.de , (PDF; 5 p., 476 kB).
  4. ^ André Dominé , Armin Faber, Thomas Pothmann: Wine . Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-2765-6 , p. 471 .
  5. ↑ Barbara Dötsch: Most expensive wine in the world: 2003 Scharzhofberger Riesling. ( Memento from November 4, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ). In: luxury. welt.de , September 23, 2015.
  6. ↑ Hugh Johnson : The Little Johnson ( German ). Hallwag, 2000, ISBN 3-444-70202-7 .