Erdener Treppchen Riesling BA Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, apricot tart, tart, foie gras, apricot
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary, dizzyingly steep red slate slopes of the Erdener Treppchen—named for the stone staircases carved into the hillside to aid vineyard workers—this Beerenauslese (BA) Goldkapsel represents the pinnacle of Markus Molitor's sweet wine craftsmanship. Made from 100% Riesling grapes meticulously selected berry-by-berry for their noble rot (botrytis) concentration, this wine is fermented spontaneously to preserve its pure terroir expression. The Goldkapsel designation signifies an extraordinary selection of immense richness, balancing luscious honeyed sweetness, dried apricot, and exotic spice notes with a vibrant, electric vein of slate-driven acidity that keeps the wine remarkably fresh and precise.
🍾 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.