Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich fruit-based tarts and desserts, or artisanal foie gras.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor’s Zeltinger Schlossberg Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese represents the absolute pinnacle of Mosel noble sweet winemaking. Molitor, who took over his family’s estate in 1984 at just 20 years old, has become a legendary figure, famed for his obsessive vineyard selection and uncompromising quality. The Zeltinger Schlossberg vineyard is a breathtakingly steep, south-to-southwest-facing amphitheater of fine Devonian slate where ancient, often ungrafted Riesling vines dig deep into the rock. To produce this Trockenbeerenauslese, botrytised berries are painstakingly selected by hand, grape by grape, during multiple passes through the vineyard. The resulting nectar is fermented slowly in neutral oak fuder barrels using indigenous yeasts. This artisanal process yields a wine of monumental concentration, where intense honeyed sweetness is perfectly counterbalanced by a laser-like, slate-driven acidity and a complex tapestry of dried stone fruits, saffron, and wild herbs.
🍾 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