Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Auslese 3* Gold Capsule
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich artisanal duck liver pate, and fruit-based desserts like a traditional pear or apricot tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched on the breathtakingly steep, amphitheater-like slopes of the Mosel, the Urziger Wurzgarten—or 'spice garden of Urzig'—is legendary for its unique red volcanic sandstone and slate soils. This distinct terroir imparts a wild, exotic, and fiery spice to the Riesling grapes. Under the obsessive craftsmanship of Markus Molitor, this three-star Gold Capsule Auslese represents the absolute pinnacle of noble sweet selection. Harvested by hand through painstaking multiple passes in the vineyard, only the most perfect, botrytis-affected berries are chosen. Fermented with wild yeasts and aged slowly, this wine is a masterclass in tension, weaving together opulent tropical fruit, decadent honeyed richness, and a piercing, mineral-driven acidity that keeps the wine incredibly vibrant.
🍾 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.