Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spatlese
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Sichuan or Thai cuisine, roasted pork belly with fruit compote, and aged blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese is a masterclass in the dramatic terroir of the Middle Mosel. The Domprobst vineyard, named after the cathedral provost of Trier who historically collected tithes here, is renowned for its steep, weathered blue slate soils rich in clay. This unique geology retains moisture and imparts a profound, smoky minerality to the 100% Riesling grapes. Molitor, famous for his meticulous hand-selection and commitment to traditional craftsmanship, ferments this wine using ambient yeasts in large, neutral oak 'Fuder' casks. The resulting Spätlese beautifully balances rich, late-harvest stone fruit flavors with a razor-sharp, electric acidity that is characteristic of the estate's uncompromising style.
🍾 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.