Lots of slate, rich, luscious floweriness from yellow and white blossoms, plus yellow and white stone fruit. Rich vineyard peach, limes rolled in sugar, sweet grapefruit, Bitter oranges and tangerines. Rich, dense and slatey.
Reviews:
- Wine Advocate: A wine is deep, pure and fresh on the bright, shining and fragrant yet intense and well-concentrated nose of ripe and elegant Riesling fruit. Full-bodied and enormously concentrated.
- James Suckling: treasure chest of spice and minerals. Very cool, straight finish that’s still tightly wound.
Producer Information
Weingut Markus Molitor is a leading wine estate in the Mosel region of Germany, best known for its Rieslings. The estate and its eponymous proprietor gained worldwide attention in 2015 – and the nickname “Herr 300 Punkte” (Mr 300 Points) – when three Auslese Rieslings from the 2013 vintage received 100-point ratings from Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. The estate cultivates vineyards in 15 different sites in the Mosel and Saar, including plots in the famous winemaking villages of Wehlen, Zeltingen-Rachtig and Bernkastel. Some 94 percent of plantings are Riesling, with Pinot Blanc and some rare Pinot Noir accounting for the rest – historically there had been considerable plantings of the latter in the Mosel. The winery is based at the centre of Wehlener Klosterberg. It was purpose-built at the end of the 19th Century and acquired by Markus Molitor in 1984, who carried out extensive renovations between 2009 and 2012. The winery features an old three-storey cellar cut out of the slate, giving permanently cool conditions with high humidity for the aging wines. The grapes are fermented slowly using indigenous yeasts in large barrels at low temperatures, often slowing to a pause in winter, then finishing off in the spring.
