Markus Molitor Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2016 Big Bottle Mature Mosel of this pedigree

Mature Mosel of this pedigree rarely surfaces

The blend is 85 percent Malvasia

hangs southeast-facing on its steep slopes: two thirds of a hectare of Gamay planted in the late 1960s in granite threaded with blue rock

Buttery and balanced with a perfect hint of acidity (like its namesake cookie)

bottled under the Louis Jadot label as a named single site rather than a village blend

Markus Molitor Zeltinger Himmelreich Riesling Kabinett 2016 Big Bottle Mature Mosel of this pedigreeMarkus Molitor took over his family's estate in 1984 at age twenty, the eighth generation of his family to make wine on the Mosel, and has since built it into one of the river's largest family owned wineries, some 120 hectares farmed from Haus Klosterberg near Zeltingen. His parcels in Zeltinger Himmelreich occupy steep sections of finely splintered blue Devonian slate, and the winemaking is exacting: soft crushing, several hours on the skins,