Haus Klosterberg Pinot Noir Rose
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pairs beautifully with grilled poultry, fresh summer salads with goat cheese, or light seafood dishes such as seared salmon.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Haus Klosterberg Pinot Noir Rosé is a brilliant testament to the Mosel's capability of producing world-class expressions of red grapes, far beyond its legendary Rieslings. Named after the estate's historic headquarters, Haus Klosterberg, which sits amidst the steep, slate-strewn slopes of the Mosel valley, this wine is crafted entirely from Pinot Noir (Spätburgunder). The Molitor family has tended these dramatic vineyards for eight generations, maintaining a philosophy of meticulous hand-harvesting and minimal intervention. The cool climate and unique Devonian slate soils impart a vibrant, mineral-driven backbone to the wine. After a gentle pressing and brief skin contact to extract its delicate salmon-pink hue, the juice is fermented cool to preserve its lively aromatics, resulting in a rosé of remarkable tension, showing notes of wild strawberry, red currant, and a signature wet-stone minerality that reflects its dramatic river-valley origin.
🍾 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.