Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling TBA 1*
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, rich foie gras, and elegant fruit-based desserts like apple tarte tatin or apricot galette.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese 1-Star is a monument to the extreme viticulture of the Middle Mosel. The Zeltinger Sonnenuhr vineyard, famous for its historic 19th-century sundial painted directly onto a sheer slate rock face, features incredibly steep slopes of weathered blue Devonian slate. In this dramatic terroir, Molitor practices meticulous, multi-pass hand-harvesting, selecting only individual berries shriveled by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). The 1-Star designation signifies Molitor's internal classification of exceptional finesse and concentration within this ultra-sweet category. Fermented slowly with wild yeasts, this golden nectar captures the tension between luscious, honeyed sweetness and a piercing, slate-driven acidity that defines the absolute pinnacle of traditional Mosel winemaking.
🍾 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