Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese (3 stars)
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich blue cheeses, foie gras or savory terrines, and fruit-based desserts such as peach tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wehlener Sonnenuhr, or 'Sundial of Wehlen', is one of the Mosel's most legendary vineyards, named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide vineyard workers. Markus Molitor's three-star Auslese represents the absolute pinnacle of this steep, weathered blue slate terroir. Crafted from 100% Riesling, this wine is produced through painstaking hand-selection of botrytized berries. Molitor's three-star rating denotes an extraordinary level of concentration, complexity, and selection. The resulting wine is a masterpiece of tension, balancing luscious, honeyed stone fruit, wild herbs, and exotic spice with the Mosel's signature electric acidity and deep, stony minerality.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded upon an eighth-generation family viticultural heritage, Weingut Markus Molitor was transformed in 1984 when twenty-year-old Markus Molitor took over the estate at Haus Klosterberg with the dedicated mission of restoring Mosel Riesling to its historic world-class stature. Situated in Bernkastel-Kues in Germany's legendary Mosel region, the winery meticulously cultivates precipitous slate vineyards across renowned grand cru sites such as Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, and Erdener Treppchen. Molitor practices low yields, ultra-selective late hand-harvesting, and gentle spontaneous fermentation in ancient, deep vaulted cellars with minimal intervention. The estate is globally celebrated for its site-expressive Rieslings—distinguished by white, green, and gold capsules indicating dry, off-dry, and botrytized sweet styles—as well as remarkably complex, structured Pinot Noir.