Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Tba Goldkapsel 3*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Artisanal blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras torchon, or classic apricot and peach fruit tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor’s Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese Goldkapsel 3* represents the absolute zenith of Mosel winemaking, combining extreme selection with one of the world's most legendary terroirs. The Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard, famous for its steep, weathered blue Devonian slate slopes, takes its name from the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide the vineyard workers. To craft this rare elixir, Molitor’s team meticulously hand-harvests individual, shriveled berries affected by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). The 'Goldkapsel' denotes its noble sweet style, while the '3*' classification represents Molitor’s highest tier of selection, indicating a wine of monumental concentration, vibrant acidity, and profound mineral complexity. Spontaneous fermentation and patient aging yield a nectar that balances luscious sweetness with a razor-sharp, saline-infused finish.
🍾 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