Trabener Wurzgarten TBA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, artisanal fruit tarts featuring apricots or peaches, or served chilled on its own as a sublime meditation wine at the end of a meal.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the steep, slate-strewn slopes of the Mosel, the Trabener Wurzgarten Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) by Markus Molitor is a monument to patience and extreme viticulture. Markus Molitor, a visionary who took over his family's estate in 1984, is legendary for his uncompromising selection process, often harvesting berry-by-berry deep into the winter. The Wurzgarten (meaning spice garden) vineyard in Traben is renowned for its iron-rich, weathered grey slate soils, which impart a distinctively spicy, mineral-driven complexity to the Riesling grapes. To produce a TBA, botrytized grapes are painstakingly gathered only when they have shriveled to raisin-like concentration. Fermented slowly with indigenous yeasts in traditional cellar conditions, this rare nectar balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with the Mosel's trademark electric acidity, creating a wine of unparalleled depth, tension, and historical resonance.
🍾 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% Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)