Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Auslese 3* Green Capsule
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, roasted duck with a fruit-based glaze, and aged hard cheeses like Comté or Gruyère.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, often referred to as a visionary of the Mosel, is celebrated for his uncompromising dedication to quality and his precise expression of terroir. The Graacher Himmelreich vineyard is renowned for its steep slopes and deep, weathered blue Devonian slate soils, which impart a distinct, intense minerality to the wines. In Molitor's unique system, the Green Capsule indicates a 'feinherb' or off-dry style, offering a harmonious tension between delicate sweetness and vibrant acidity. The '3-Star' designation is the estate's highest quality tier for Auslese, representing an incredibly rigorous selection of the finest grapes. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts in traditional, large neutral oak casks (Fuder), this Riesling showcases a brilliant complexity, blending rich stone fruit flavors with smoky slate notes and a long, saline finish.
🍾 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.