Saarburger Rausch Riesling Auslese 3* Green Capsule
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Sichuan or Thai cuisine, glazed roast duck or goose, and artisanal washed-rind or blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the visionary Markus Molitor, who took over his family's estate in 1984 with a mission to restore the Mosel's historic prestige, this wine is a masterclass in precision. The Saarburger Rausch is a legendary, precipitously steep vineyard in the cool Saar valley, celebrated for its iron-rich, grey Devonian slate soils that impart an unmistakable smoky minerality and electric acidity to the Riesling grapes. Molitor's unique color-coded capsule system uses the Green Capsule to denote an off-dry (feinherb) style. The coveted three-star (3*) designation represents the ultimate selection of highly concentrated, golden, and partially botrytized grapes, meticulously harvested by hand. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts and aged in neutral oak Fuder casks, this Auslese achieves a breathtaking tension between lush, exotic stone fruit sweetness and a driving, mineral-infused freshness.
🍾 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.