Haus Klosterberg Pinot Noir
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pairs wonderfully with roasted duck breast, earthy wild mushroom risotto, or grilled salmon.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, who took over his family's estate in 1984 at the age of twenty, has become a legendary figure in the Mosel, dedicated to demonstrating the region's potential for world-class wines. While the Mosel is world-renowned for Riesling, Molitor has been a passionate champion of Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir), which thrives on the steep, slate-rich slopes surrounding the historic Haus Klosterberg estate in Wehlen. This Pinot Noir is crafted with meticulous care, utilizing ambient yeast fermentation and aging in French oak barriques. The resulting wine is a beautiful expression of cool-climate Pinot Noir, marrying the grape's natural red-berry elegance with a distinct, smoky slate minerality that is uniquely Mosel.
🍾 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.