Kinheimer Hubertuslay Riesling Auslese ** White Capsule
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pork belly, pan-seared scallops with butter sauce, and aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor took over his family's estate in 1984 with a singular vision: to return the Mosel region to its historic golden age of winemaking. The Kinheimer Hubertuslay vineyard, characterized by steep, sun-drenched slopes of weathered grey slate, provides the perfect canvas for this expression. This Riesling Auslese is marked by two stars, denoting an extraordinary selection of highly concentrated grapes, while the signature 'White Capsule' signifies that Molitor has vinified this traditionally sweet-leaning category into a powerful, bone-dry style. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts in traditional oak Fuder, the wine balances the intense, exotic richness of late-harvested fruit with a razor-sharp mineral tension and crystalline acidity, embodying the uncompromising craftsmanship of one of Germany's modern legends.
🍾 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.