Kinheimer Hubertuslay Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel 3*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck foie gras, and artisanal fruit tarts featuring apricots or peaches.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Kinheimer Hubertuslay Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel 3* represents the absolute zenith of Mosel winemaking craftsmanship. The Hubertuslay vineyard, named after Saint Hubertus—the patron saint of hunters—and the local dialect word for slate ('Lay'), features steep slopes of weathered grey slate that impart a profound minerality to the Riesling grapes. Molitor, famous for his uncompromising quality standards, harvests these grapes through meticulous multiple selections by hand, often well into the late autumn. The 'Goldkapsel' (Gold Capsule) denotes a noble sweet style, while the '3-Star' designation is Molitor's highest tier of distinction, reserved for lots of extraordinary concentration, complexity, and botrytis influence. Spontaneously fermented in traditional large oak Fuder casks, this wine beautifully balances opulent sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity, carrying the legendary legacy of Mosel's extreme viticulture.
🍾 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.