Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras, or elegant fruit tarts and peach-based desserts.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary winemaker Markus Molitor, this Trockenbeerenauslese is a monument to the extreme viticulture of the Mosel. It hails from the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr (Zeltingen Sundial) vineyard, a dizzyingly steep slope of weathered Devonian blue slate. The vineyard gets its name from the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide vineyard workers. This ultra-rare, sweet nectar is made from 100% Riesling grapes painstakingly selected berry-by-berry, only choosing those perfectly shriveled by noble rot (botrytis). Fermented slowly with indigenous yeasts, the wine represents the pinnacle of Mosel's tension, where immense, honeyed concentration is electrified by a laser-like beam of slatey acidity.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded upon an eighth-generation family viticultural heritage, Weingut Markus Molitor was transformed in 1984 when twenty-year-old Markus Molitor took over the estate at Haus Klosterberg with the dedicated mission of restoring Mosel Riesling to its historic world-class stature. Situated in Bernkastel-Kues in Germany's legendary Mosel region, the winery meticulously cultivates precipitous slate vineyards across renowned grand cru sites such as Zeltinger Sonnenuhr, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, and Erdener Treppchen. Molitor practices low yields, ultra-selective late hand-harvesting, and gentle spontaneous fermentation in ancient, deep vaulted cellars with minimal intervention. The estate is globally celebrated for its site-expressive Rieslings—distinguished by white, green, and gold capsules indicating dry, off-dry, and botrytized sweet styles—as well as remarkably complex, structured Pinot Noir.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling