Trabener Wurzgarten Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheeses, rich foie gras, and fruit-based desserts like peach tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor is synonymous with the modern renaissance of Mosel Riesling, operating from the historic Haus Klosterberg. The Trabener Wuerzgarten, or spice garden of Traben, is a steep, slate-laden site that yields wines of extraordinary aromatic complexity. This Auslese is crafted from meticulously hand-selected, botrytis-affected grapes. Molitor's philosophy of minimal intervention, spontaneous fermentation in large oak foudres, and respect for the unique slate terroir results in a wine where intense, honeyed sweetness is perfectly countered by a spine of electric acidity and a distinct, exotic herbal spiciness.
🍾 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.