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 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.