Staffelter Hof | Wines from Mosel
Staffelter Hof make natural wines in the Mosel region of Germany. The owner of the estate is Jan Mathias Klein in the famous Mosel Valley of Germany. Not only is it one of the oldest surviving wineries, but it's actually one of the oldest registered companies in the world still in operation!Popular bottles include Kiss Kiss Maddies Lips, Little Bastard and Little Read Riding Wolf. The estate has an intersting use of a wolf on their labels which comes from an urban legend when the winery was run by monks... Read more below!
Staffelter Hof - one of the oldest companies in the world!
As for the wolf on the labels?
Rumour has it a wolf roamed the steep slopes of the Mosel Valley and killed the winery’s donkey, so the wineries’ monks running the vineyards caught the wolf (called Magnus) and forced the WOLF to do the donkey’s job on the steep slopes rather than carry everything themselves !
Little Bastard of the Mosel
Another stand-out favourite of his for us is his blend of Riesling with Sauvignon Blanc, which goes through malolactic conversion (often stopped in traditional Mosel wines) giving it a softer, less invasive acidity than much of the regions’ wines. It’s appropriately titled ’Little Bastard”, as its so completely different from anything else you would expect in the Mosel... perhaps to the point it is not sure who it’s real father is (Riesling or Sauvignon!)