Graacher Domprobst Riesling TBA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras, and elegant apricot or peach tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Graacher Domprobst Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) represents the absolute pinnacle of Mosel sweet winemaking. Hailing from the steep, slate-rich slopes of the Graacher Domprobst vineyard—historically named after the cathedral provost of Trier who once collected its tithes—this wine is born from extreme dedication. The terroir is defined by deep Devonian slate soils that retain moisture and impart a profound, fiery minerality. To produce a TBA, Molitor's pickers painstakingly harvest individual, shriveled grapes affected by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) berry by berry. Fermented slowly in traditional cellars, this rare nectar balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with the electric, vibrating acidity characteristic of the finest Mosel Rieslings.
🍾 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