Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling TBA 1*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras or savory terrines, and caramelized fruit desserts like Tarte Tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary, vertigo-inducing slopes of the Wehlener Sonnenuhr (Sundial of Wehlen) in the heart of the Mosel, this Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) represents the pinnacle of German sweet winemaking. The vineyard, named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm, is renowned for its pure, weathered blue Devonian slate soils. Maverick winemaker Markus Molitor crafts this rare elixir from 100% Riesling grapes painstakingly selected berry-by-berry for their perfect noble rot (botrytis). The single-star (*) designation signifies a style of exquisite elegance and concentration. Fermented with wild yeasts and aged in neutral oak, this wine marries intense, honeyed tropical fruit sweetness with the electric, mineral-driven acidity that only the Mosel's unique terroir can provide.
🍾 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