Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese (White Capsule)
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared freshwater trout with lemon-herb butter, roasted pork belly with crackling, or traditional German onion tart (Zwiebelkuchen).
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor took over his family's estate in 1984 with a vision to return Mosel Riesling to its golden age of age-worthy, terroir-driven wines. This bottling hails from the steep, iron-rich blue Devonian slate slopes of the legendary Graacher Domprobst vineyard, a site historically owned by the cathedral provost of Trier. Molitor's unique color-coded capsule system uses the White Capsule to signify a bone-dry style, even when harvested at Spätlese-level ripeness. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts in traditional large oak fuder casks, this 100% Riesling showcases the intense, smoky minerality, structural power, and vibrant herbal complexity characteristic 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.