{"product_id":"egon-muller-scharzhofberger-riesling-spatlese-2009","title":"Egon Muller, Scharzhofberger Riesling Spätlese, 2009","description":"A 2009 Scharzhofberger Spätlese from Egon Müller, now old enough to show what the estate says this wine is built to become: something so elegant it can't really be called either \"sweet\" or \"dry.\" Müller only uses the Spätlese label for grapes that are emphatically ripe or even overripe. The house always starts that harvest a little later than everyone else, sorting every day and picking the ripest grapes from its best sites as late as it possibly can. What keeps all that ripeness in balance is the vineyard. The Scharzhofberg is one of the coolest Riesling sites on the Saar and beyond. Its vines grow in Saar slate that is heavily weathered on the western side of the hill, so roots can penetrate well, and there's more and more quartzite as you head west. In the cellar the approach is deliberately hands-off, following the late Egon Müller III's belief that wine quality comes 100 percent from the vineyard. Jean-Jacques Koch bought the Scharzhof in 1797, after the church was stripped of the land; before that, the vintners of the monastery of St. Marien ad Martyres had worked the slope. Someone else did the waiting on this one, and we're more than happy to pour the result.","brand":"Private","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524939255865,"sku":"NYC-[CNSN]-TTSUMMER0826-092226-5-1","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Egon-Muller-Scharzhofberger-Riesling-Spatlese-2009-White-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1790154049","url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/products\/egon-muller-scharzhofberger-riesling-spatlese-2009","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}