Kinheimer Hubertuslay Beerenauslese 1*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pungent blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, classic fruit tarts like tarte tatin or peach galette, and rich savory starters like artisanal duck liver pâté.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the visionary Markus Molitor, who took over his family's estate in 1984 with a mission to revive the golden era of Mosel Riesling, the Kinheimer Hubertuslay Beerenauslese 1* is a monument to patience and precision. The vineyard name 'Hubertuslay' pays homage to Saint Hubertus, the patron saint of hunters, combined with 'lay'—the ancient Celtic word for slate. Perched on the steep, weathered grey slate slopes of the Mosel, these Riesling vines yield grapes of extraordinary intensity. This Beerenauslese is born from painstaking hand-selection of individual botrytized berries. Molitor's unique '1*' designation signifies a level of exquisite refinement and delicacy. Fermented slowly with native yeasts, the wine balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with a vibrant, electric slate-driven acidity, showcasing the legendary tension of great Mosel dessert wines.
🍾 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.