Graacher Domprobst Riesling Eiswein
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, fruit-based tarts like apple or pear tarte tatin, or savored on its own as a meditative digestif.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Graacher Domprobst Riesling Eiswein is a monumental testament to the extreme viticulture of the Middle Mosel. The Graacher Domprobst vineyard, renowned for its steep, weathered blue Devonian slate soils, yields Riesling of extraordinary structure and mineral tension. Eiswein is one of the most precarious styles to produce, requiring growers to leave healthy grapes on the vine into the depths of winter, risking the entire crop in anticipation of a hard freeze of at least minus seven degrees Celsius. Harvested by hand in the freezing pre-dawn hours, the frozen grapes are pressed immediately, leaving the water behind as ice and extracting a precious, highly concentrated nectar. Molitor's meticulous selection process ensures that this rare elixir balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with a piercing, electric acidity, showcasing the pure, crystalline essence of the Domprobst terroir.
🍾 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