Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Spatlese Feinherb Ed Nr 10
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Southeast Asian cuisine, roasted pork belly with apple sauce, and mature alpine cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the visionary Markus Molitor, who took over his family's estate in 1984 with a mission to revive the golden era of Mosel Riesling, this wine originates from the steep, slate-rich slopes of the Bernkasteler Badstube. The name 'Badstube' pays homage to the medieval bathhouses that once lined the streams of Bernkastel. This Spätlese Feinherb is traditionally bottled under Molitor's signature green capsule, indicating its harmonious balance of delicate residual sweetness and vibrant, electric acidity. Fermented slowly with wild yeasts in neutral oak fuder casks, the 100% Riesling grapes express the pure, smoky minerality of weathered Devonian slate, resulting in a complex, multi-layered white wine that marries rich stone fruit flavors with a precise, saline finish.
🍾 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.