Saarburger Rausch Riesling BA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheeses like Roquefort or Stilton, fruit-based desserts such as peach tarte tatin, and rich foie gras or savory duck liver pâté.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor’s Saarburger Rausch Riesling Beerenauslese (BA) represents the pinnacle of liquid gold from the Saar valley, a cooler sub-region of the Mosel famed for its razor-sharp acidity and crystalline purity. The Saarburger Rausch vineyard sits on steep, south-facing slopes composed of weathered Devonian slate, which imparts a fierce, smoky minerality to the grapes. Molitor, a legendary figure who revived his family estate in 1984 at just 20 years old, is famous for his uncompromising, obsessive selection process. For this BA, pickers must meticulously harvest individual botrytised berries by hand. The resulting wine is a masterpiece of tension, balancing decadent sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity that ensures it never feels heavy.
🍾 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.