Saarburger Rausch Riesling Auslese ** GK
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras or artisanal pâtés, and fruit-based desserts like caramelized apple tart or peach galette.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary, dizzyingly steep slopes of the Saarburger Rausch vineyard in the Saar valley, this Riesling is a masterclass in precision and tension. The Rausch vineyard is famed for its weathered Devonian slate soils, rich in iron, which impart a distinctive smoky minerality and vibrant acidity to the grapes. Markus Molitor, a legendary figure in the Mosel known for his uncompromising commitment to quality and artisanal methods, uses a star rating system to denote quality, with two stars (**) indicating a highly concentrated, superior selection. The Goldkapsel (GK) signifies a noble sweet style, crafted from meticulously hand-selected botrytized berries. Fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts and aged in traditional oak Fuder, this wine beautifully marries intense, honeyed tropical fruit richness with a laser-like, electric acidity typical 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.