Einstern * Pinot Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared river trout with lemon butter, roasted poultry, and wild mushroom risotto.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, often dubbed 'Mr. 100 Points,' has single-handedly redefined the potential of the Mosel valley, proving that its steep, slate-laden slopes are capable of producing world-class dry wines beyond just Riesling. The 'Einstern *' (One Star) Pinot Blanc (Weisser Burgunder) is a testament to this vision. Sourced from meticulously hand-harvested grapes grown on the region's dramatic, sun-drenched slate terraces, this wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with ambient yeasts and is aged on its fine lees in traditional large oak casks (Fuder). This traditional, low-intervention approach coaxes out a fascinating tension between the natural creaminess and stone-fruit richness of Pinot Blanc and the electric, smoky minerality unique to Mosel's Devonian slate soils. It represents a brilliant bridge between Burgundian texture and cool-climate German precision.
🍾 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