Niedermenniger Herrenberg TBA 3*** GK
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheeses like Roquefort or Stilton, classic foie gras, and rich fruit-based desserts such as apricot tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor’s Niedermenniger Herrenberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) 3*** Gold Capsule represents the absolute pinnacle of noble sweet winemaking in the Saar valley of the Mosel region. The Herrenberg vineyard, characterized by its steep slopes and iron-rich Devonian slate soils, yields wines of bracing acidity and profound mineral tension. Molitor, a legendary figure who revived his family's estate in 1984 at just 20 years old, uses a meticulous three-star classification system to denote his finest selections. For this rare TBA, highly skilled harvest teams make multiple passes through the vineyard, hand-selecting individual, shriveled, botrytis-affected berries. The gold capsule (GK) signifies an extraordinary level of concentration. Fermented slowly with native yeasts, this liquid gold balances immense, honeyed sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity that is characteristic of the cool Saar microclimate.
🍾 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% Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)