Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Auslese 3* Green Capsule
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian dishes such as Thai curry, roasted duck with fruit-based glazes, and aged semi-hard cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, a visionary of the Mosel region, is celebrated for resurrecting the historic prestige of steep-slope Riesling. His unique capsule color-coding system is legendary: white capsules denote dry wines, gold indicates sweet, and the green capsule signifies an off-dry (feinherb) style. The Bernkasteler Badstube vineyard, composed of weathered devonian slate, yields grapes with intense minerality and bright acidity. The three-star (***) designation represents Molitor's highest tier of selection, harvested by hand with meticulous care. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts in traditional large oak Fuder casks, this Auslese Green Capsule is a masterclass in balance, weaving together rich stone fruit, exotic spice, and a vibrant, slate-driven tension that reflects centuries of Mosel winemaking heritage.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1984 when twenty-year-old Markus Molitor assumed control of his family's winemaking legacy, Weingut Markus Molitor has evolved into an undisputed titan of the Mosel. Based at Haus Klosterberg, Molitor manages over 100 hectares encompassing premier steep-slope crus along both the Middle Mosel and Saar, including Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Ürziger Würzgarten, Erdener Prälat, and Scharzhofberg. Viticulture is strictly manual on precipitous gradients of weathered Devonian blue, red, and grey slate. Molitor pursues an uncompromising philosophy centered on sustainable farming, late selective harvesting, native yeast fermentation, and prolonged aging on fine lees in traditional wooden Fuders carved into subterranean slate cellars. Renowned for its singular capsule coding system—white indicating dry, green denoting feinherb (off-dry), and gold designating noble sweet expressions, often tiered with asterisks—the estate crafts crystalline, hyper-mineral Rieslings of monumental depth and aging potential, alongside site-expressive Pinot Noir and Weissburgunder.