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 upon an eighth-generation family viticultural heritage, Weingut Markus Molitor was transformed in 1984 when twenty-year-old Markus Molitor took over the estate at Haus Klosterberg with the dedicated mission of restoring Mosel Riesling to its historic world-class stature. Situated in Bernkastel-Kues in Germany's legendary Mosel region, the winery meticulously cultivates precipitous slate vineyards across renowned grand cru sites such as Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, and Erdener Treppchen. Molitor practices low yields, ultra-selective late hand-harvesting, and gentle spontaneous fermentation in ancient, deep vaulted cellars with minimal intervention. The estate is globally celebrated for its site-expressive Rieslings—distinguished by white, green, and gold capsules indicating dry, off-dry, and botrytized sweet styles—as well as remarkably complex, structured Pinot Noir.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling