Niedermenniger Herrenberg Riesling TBA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich fruit-based tarts like apricot or peach tarte tatin, and traditional foie gras.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Niedermenniger Herrenberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) represents the pinnacle of Mosel's noble sweet winemaking. Located in the Konzer Tälchen, a cool side valley of the Saar, the Niedermenniger Herrenberg vineyard is characterized by its iron-rich Devonian slate soils, which impart a distinct smoky minerality and vibrant acidity to the Riesling grapes. Molitor, who took over his family estate in 1984 with a mission to restore the Mosel to its golden age of winemaking, employs an uncompromising selection process. For this TBA, individually shriveled, botrytized berries are painstakingly hand-harvested, often requiring multiple passes through the vineyard. The result is an incredibly concentrated, nectar-like elixir that balances luscious sweetness with a laser-sharp, electric acidity, showcasing the legendary tension and complexity of Saar Riesling.
🍾 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