Ockfener Bockstein Beerenauslese GK
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, rich foie gras, and elegant fruit-based desserts like apricot tart or peach galette.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Markus Molitor, this Beerenauslese Goldkapsel (GK) is a monument to the steep, slate-laden slopes of the Ockfener Bockstein vineyard in the Saar valley. The Bockstein, a natural south-southwest-facing amphitheater, is renowned for its Devonian gravelly slate soils, which lend a profound, smoky minerality and vibrant acidity to the wine. Made from 100% Riesling, this ultra-concentrated sweet elixir is produced only in exceptional vintages through painstaking, berry-by-berry hand selection of noble rot (botrytis) affected grapes. Fermented slowly with indigenous yeasts, the Goldkapsel designation signifies an extraordinary level of richness, complexity, and selection. The history of Ockfener Bockstein dates back centuries, once highly prized by Prussian nobility, and Molitor's meticulous craftsmanship continues this legacy of producing some of the world's most cellar-worthy sweet wines.
🍾 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)