06/04/2026
Wine of the Week! Weingut Fürst Elbling Dry
📍 Mosel, Germany
🍇 100% Elbling
Elbling is a great old Germanic wine grape (once planted more widely than Riesling in Germany) with a long history traceable to imperial Roman times. It was Germany’s most cultivated variety until the early 20th century.
Today, its range is limited to the cool, steep banks of the Obermosel (southern Mosel) river valley and neighboring Luxembourg—where the Mosel discreetly becomes the Moselle.
Just next door is the Sauer Valley, where Michael Fürst operates his small family estate, one of the area’s last surviving wineries. The Fürst family has grown grapes and other crops at their estate since the 13th century, and Michael is the 3rd generation to make wine under the family name.
There are 12 hectares of Elbling planted at Fürst, 70% of which are old vines, 25% between 10-20 years old, and 5% young, grown on limestone slopes.
Light bodied, low alcohol, and dry as a vodka martini, Elbling is like a Teutonic answer to Muscadet. It’s jazzy and expressive, true to the variety and exciting to drink with bracing acidity and notes of green apple, citrus, and nectarine, accompanied by a slight spritz. It’s the quintessential summer party wine.
Pairs perfectly with chilled oysters, cured fish, and fresh greens.
Sustainable.
$22 in store or online
10.5% ABV
