Kinheimer Hubertuslay Riesling Beerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses like Roquefort, artisanal fruit tarts featuring apricots or peaches, and rich savory starters like foie gras.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, often dubbed 'Mr. 100 Points,' is renowned for his uncompromising quality and precision in the steep, slate-strewn vineyards of the Mosel. The Kinheimer Hubertuslay vineyard, named in honor of Saint Hubertus—the patron saint of hunters—features the ancient Celtic word 'Lay,' meaning slate. This steep site is characterized by weathered grey and blue Devonian slate soils, which impart a distinct mineral tension to the vines. For this Beerenauslese, Molitor's team undergoes painstaking, berry-by-berry hand selection to harvest only those grapes perfectly shriveled by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). Fermented slowly with wild yeasts, this 100% Riesling represents the pinnacle of Mosel's sweet wine tradition, balancing rich, honeyed concentration with a vibrant, laser-like acidity.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling