Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Eiswein
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, fruit-based tarts and crumbles, or served on its own as a meditative dessert.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Markus Molitor, this rare Eiswein is a testament to the extreme viticulture of the Mosel. The Bernkasteler Badstube vineyard, named after the historic medieval bathhouses of Bernkastel, features steep slopes of weathered Devonian slate that impart a profound minerality to the Riesling grapes. To produce Eiswein, grapes must freeze naturally on the vine and be harvested in the freezing darkness of early winter mornings, typically at temperatures of minus seven degrees Celsius or colder. Pressed while still frozen, only the highly concentrated, sugary nectar is extracted, leaving the water behind as ice. Molitor's meticulous selection and minimal-intervention winemaking yield an extraordinary elixir where luscious, honeyed sweetness is perfectly balanced by a vibrant, electric acidity.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling