Niedermenniger Herrenberg Riesling TBA 1*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, rich duck liver pâté, and artisanal fruit tarts featuring apricot or quince.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Niedermenniger Herrenberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) 1-Star is a monument to Mosel winemaking, specifically hailing from the cooler Saar side-valley. The Herrenberg vineyard, famed for its iron-rich Devonian slate soils, yields Riesling of incredible tension and mineral drive. Molitor, a visionary who resurrected his family's estate in 1984, employs an obsessive, berry-by-berry selection process to harvest grapes fully shriveled by botrytis (noble rot). The single-star designation denotes a style of immense concentration combined with elegance. This liquid gold balances luscious sweetness with the Saar's signature electric acidity, resulting in a complex profile of dried apricots, honey, and smoky slate minerality.
🍾 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