Kinheimer Rosenberg Riesling Auslese ***
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Crisp roasted Peking duck, artisanal blue cheeses like Stilton or Roquefort, and classic caramelized apple tarte Tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Kinheimer Rosenberg Riesling Auslese *** represents the absolute pinnacle of Mosel craftsmanship. Taking over his family estate in 1984 at just 20 years old, Molitor set out to restore the region's historic golden era of winemaking through meticulous vineyard management and natural cellar practices. The Kinheimer Rosenberg vineyard, with its precipitously steep slopes of weathered slate, provides the ideal terroir for Riesling, imparting a distinctive mineral tension. The three-star (***) designation is Molitor's ultimate quality tier, representing an uncompromising, berry-by-berry selection of highly concentrated, often botrytis-affected grapes. Fermented naturally with indigenous yeasts in traditional large oak Fuder casks, this white wine balances opulent notes of candied citrus, honeyed stone fruits, and exotic spices with a laser-like, vibrating acidity that defines the Mosel's finest terroirs.
🍾 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