Weingut Le Gallais

In 1954 legendary producer Egon Müller purchased 50% of a second estate at Wiltingen. It was owned by the Gallais family from Brittany, one of the founders of the Arbed steelworks in the Saarland. The Gallais estate at that time owned 2.5 hectares of vineyard in one of the best sites on the Saar, the Wiltinger Brauner Kupp, planted exclusively with Riesling. In 1992 Müller personally bought a further two hectares in this site and labelled the wine as Le Gallais.

The Rieslings from here are refined but rich with opulent fruit. Only when compared directly with the superb Scharzhofberg wines does it become obvious that they are not in the same league, though in lesser vintages Le Gallais wines can prove superior due to their richness. Le Gallais is very much an estate in its own right and definitely not a second label.