Wehlener Klosterberg Riesling TBA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras, or elegant fruit-based tarts and apricot desserts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Wehlener Klosterberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) represents the absolute pinnacle of sweet winemaking in the Middle Mosel. The Wehlener Klosterberg vineyard, wrapping around the historic monastery, features steep slopes of weathered Devonian slate that capture the sun's warmth and reflect it back to the vines. To produce this rare nectar, Molitor's team undergoes a painstaking, berry-by-berry harvest, selecting only those grapes fully shriveled by Botrytis cinerea (noble rot). This labor-intensive process yields a wine of extraordinary concentration, where the natural, luscious sweetness of the Riesling grape is perfectly balanced by a vibrant, electric acidity. Rich in historical heritage, this wine carries the legacy of monastic viticulture that has defined the Mosel valley for centuries, showcasing a profound tension between honeyed richness and stony minerality.
🍾 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% Riesling