Zeltinger Sonnenuhr TBA 1* GK
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2070
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses like Roquefort, artisanal fruit tarts featuring apricot or quince, and rich foie gras terrine.
✨ Technical Specifications
Markus Molitor's Zeltinger Sonnenuhr Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) 1* Goldkapsel represents the pinnacle of Mosel Riesling, sourced from the precipitously steep, blue Devonian slate slopes of the Zeltinger Sonnenuhr (Zeltingen Sundial) vineyard. The vineyard's name pays homage to the historic sundial erected in the 19th century to help workers track their hours. Under the visionary guidance of Markus Molitor, who took over his family estate in 1984, this wine is produced only in exceptional vintages. It is crafted from 100% Riesling grapes that have been painstakingly hand-selected, berry by shriveled berry, to capture the pure essence of noble rot (botrytis). The '1*' designation denotes a highly refined selection level, while the Goldkapsel signifies its status as an ultra-premium sweet wine. Fermented slowly using indigenous yeasts, this TBA harmonizes an extraordinary concentration of honeyed, exotic fruit flavors with the Mosel's trademark electric acidity and deep slate minerality.
🍾 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% Spätburgunder (Pinot Noir)