Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 3* Green Capsule
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, roasted duck with fruit-based reduction sauces, and matured semi-hard cheeses such as Comt or Gruyre.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese 3* Green Capsule represents the pinnacle of the Mosel's off-dry winemaking tradition. The Zeltinger Sonnenuhr (Sundial) vineyard, named after the historic sundial erected in 1620 to guide vineyard workers, is renowned for its steep, blue Devonian slate slopes. Molitor, famous for his uncompromising perfectionism, uses a unique capsule color-coding system where the green capsule denotes a refined off-dry (feinherb) style. The three-star (3*) designation indicates his highest tier of selection, where botrytised and highly ripe grapes are painstakingly harvested by hand, berry by berry. Fermented naturally with wild yeasts in large, neutral oak foudres, this Riesling beautifully balances intense, exotic fruit concentration with a striking, slate-driven minerality and electric acidity.
🍾 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.