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 upon an eighth-generation family viticultural heritage, Weingut Markus Molitor was transformed in 1984 when twenty-year-old Markus Molitor took over the estate at Haus Klosterberg with the dedicated mission of restoring Mosel Riesling to its historic world-class stature. Situated in Bernkastel-Kues in Germany's legendary Mosel region, the winery meticulously cultivates precipitous slate vineyards across renowned grand cru sites such as Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, and Erdener Treppchen. Molitor practices low yields, ultra-selective late hand-harvesting, and gentle spontaneous fermentation in ancient, deep vaulted cellars with minimal intervention. The estate is globally celebrated for its site-expressive Rieslings—distinguished by white, green, and gold capsules indicating dry, off-dry, and botrytized sweet styles—as well as remarkably complex, structured Pinot Noir.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling