Niedermenniger Herrenberg Riesling Auslese*** Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck liver terrine, and elegant fruit-based desserts like pear tart or apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, often referred to as 'Herr 100 Points' for his extraordinary streak of perfect scores, took over his family's winery in 1984 at just 20 years old with a singular vision: to restore the Mosel and Saar valleys to their historic glory. The Niedermenniger Herrenberg vineyard, situated in the cooler Saar side-valley, is renowned for its iron-rich Devonian slate soils. This unique terroir imparts a distinctive smoky minerality and a vibrant, crystalline acidity to the Riesling grapes. The 'Auslese***' designation represents Molitor's most meticulous, triple-starred selection of botrytized grapes, hand-harvested in multiple passes. Sealed with a Goldkapsel to denote its noble sweet style, this wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts in traditional neutral oak 'Fuder' casks. The result is a breathtakingly complex nectar where luscious sweetness is perfectly counterbalanced by the electric, structural acidity characteristic of the Saar.
🍾 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