MOLITOR ZELTINGER SONNENUHR AUSLESE GOLDKAPSEL 2015 375 ML

Description

Oddly Markus Molitor flies a little under the radar in the US, but within Germany’s domestic wine market the estate’s name is synonymous with the best. Today it’s an eight generation family estate that has been making world-famous Rieslings for over 100 years. Working intimately with the grand cru level vineyards to cultivate the best possible fruit, the estate details what makes Zeltinger Sonnenuhr special: “Covering less than 20 hectares this top Middle Mosel site has mainly very old, ungrafted vines (often more than 80 years old) with fine but also very stony soils of mostly quite light blue Devon slate. The oldest and best plots are often located on small terraces with very little soil, producing very low yields (10-20 hl/ha) of exceptional quality. This site produces our greatest dry and off-dry wines as well as many of our top botrytis wines. All wines grown on the Sonnenuhr have an incomparably elegant ripeness relative to the vintage.”