Saarburger Rausch Riesling BA GK
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras or savory duck liver pâté, and fruit-based desserts like caramelized pear tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor, often celebrated for his uncompromising pursuit of quality, crafts this exquisite sweet nectar from the steep, dizzying slopes of the Saarburger Rausch vineyard. Situated along the Saar tributary of the Mosel, this historic site is renowned for its weathered Devonian slate soils shot through with iron-rich volcanic diabase. For this Beerenauslese Goldkapsel (BA GK), botrytized grapes are painstakingly selected berry-by-berry during harvest. The 'Goldkapsel' designation indicates an exceptionally noble, concentrated selection of auction-grade quality. Fermented naturally in traditional cellars, the wine represents a sublime marriage of intense, honeyed sweetness and the Saar's trademark electric, laser-like acidity, capturing the essence of one of Germany's most dramatic terroirs.
🍾 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