Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling BA Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras or duck liver pate, and fruit-based desserts like peach galette or apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Beerenauslese Goldkapsel is a monumental expression of one of the Mosel's most dramatic and legendary vineyards. The Urziger Wurzgarten, or 'spice garden of Urzig,' is famous for its steep, amphitheater-like slopes and its unique red volcanic soil mixed with slate, a geological anomaly in a region dominated by blue slate. This terroir imparts a signature exotic, fiery spice and intense minerality to the Riesling grapes. Under the meticulous hand of Markus Molitor, who is renowned for his uncompromising quality and late harvesting, only the finest botrytis-affected berries are painstakingly selected by hand for this Beerenauslese. The Goldkapsel (Gold Capsule) signifies an extraordinary level of concentration and richness, far exceeding standard Pradikat requirements. Fermented slowly with native yeasts, this noble sweet wine beautifully balances luscious sweetness with the Mosel's trademark electric acidity.
🍾 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.