Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese 1*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck liver pâté, and fruit-based desserts like glazed apricot or peach tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, often dubbed 'Mr. 100 Points,' is a titan of the Mosel, famous for resurrecting the historic grandeur of the region's steep, slate-riddled slopes. The Graacher Himmelreich vineyard, meaning 'Kingdom of Heaven,' sits adjacent to the famous Wehlener Sonnenuhr, benefiting from deep Devonian blue slate soils and excellent water-retaining clay veins. This unique terroir imparts a distinct, vibrant minerality and juicy stone-fruit character to the Riesling. Molitor's '1-Star' Auslese represents a meticulous selection of highly ripe, partially botrytized grapes, hand-harvested on dizzyingly steep slopes. Fermented slowly with wild yeasts in traditional large oak casks, this wine beautifully balances rich, honeyed concentration with a laser-like, electric acidity that is the hallmark of the Middle Mosel.
🍾 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.