Weiser-Künstler Ellergrub "GE" Riesling Trocken

Weiser-Künstler Ellergrub “GE” Riesling Trocken - Mosel, Germany

A profoundly mineral, tightly focused dry Riesling from one of the Mosel’s most revered Grand Cru–level sites, the Ellergrub “GE” Trocken showcases Weiser-Künstler at their most precise and expressive. Sourced from the impossibly steep, blue-slate terraces of Enkircher Ellergrub, this is a wine of intensity and finesse, crafted in tiny quantities and highly sought after each year.

The nose is striking and complex, with aromas of lime zest, white peach, crushed slate, herbs, and a delicate smoky edge. On the palate, the wine is taut, linear, and deeply mineral: razor-sharp acidity, concentrated citrus and stone-fruit flavours, and a long, resonant finish shaped by the vineyard’s iconic blue slate. It’s a dry Mosel Riesling of real tension and age-worthy structure.

Grape variety: Riesling

Style: Tight, mineral, powerful Mosel Trocken

Drink window: Now–2038+

Perfect for: Shellfish, ceviche, grilled white fish, fresh cheeses, or cellaring for long-term development

Focused, chiselled, and unmistakably shaped by the steep slate of Ellergrub - Weiser-Künstler “GE” Trocken is a commanding, terroir-driven Riesling for lovers of serious Mosel dry wines.

Additional note from the US Importer: 

The Grand Cru dry wines of Weiser-Künstler are among the most cerebral dry Rieslings made in the Mosel. They are wines of meditation, wines that seem to have something more to do with distillates or teas made from stone, ore and flower. They have very little easy fruit to hang one’s hat on. In other words, they are among the most thrilling wines from this fabled place.

Only after 24 hours does this show anything and it’s so delicately ethereal, so barely perfumed that I want to cry… anise, lavendar, blueberry, rainwater… on the palate it is expansive, like a cold morning mist reaching into every pour, yet weightless… it’s grapey, airy with a perfumed fruit on the palate that is purple and blue… this is just haunting. All the wines have this lightness, this expansiveness… there is an acid, a linear quality to the wines, yet they are not fine… they are ethereal and expansive, almost non-tangible… the feeling is not soft in the least – it is a room with no edges, a corner with no crease?

After a few hours the fruit emerges on the nose, as described above, but the palate remains just a polished sphere of slate. This wine is fucking beguiling.

If you can, do not decant, yet keep the wine open for as long as you can; it is only more intriguing on days three and beyond.