Zeltinger Deutschherrenberg Riesling Auslese 2**
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Glazed roast duck, artisanal blue cheeses, and aromatic, moderately spicy Southeast Asian dishes.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the visionary Markus Molitor, who took over his family estate at age twenty with a mission to restore the Mosel's historic glory, this Riesling hails from the steep, slate-rich slopes of the Zeltinger Deutschherrenberg. The vineyard's name pays homage to the Teutonic Knights (Deutscher Orden) who cultivated these very soils during the Middle Ages. Made from 100% Riesling, this Auslese 2** represents an extraordinary selection of highly concentrated grapes, often touched by noble rot. Molitor utilizes traditional, slow spontaneous fermentations in large, neutral oak casks (Fuder) to preserve the pristine minerality of the Devonian slate. The resulting wine is a masterclass in tension, balancing rich, exotic fruit flavors with a vibrating, laser-like acidity and a deep, smoky mineral core.
🍾 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.