“These are phenomenal wines.” – Vinous

Thank GOD It’s Riesling Friday!

The last time we had one was back last summer when we got wiped out of 5 different Molitor Rieslings like this one in a matter of hours. This time we’re back “prepared” with more than A DOZEN MORE. Each a tremendous bargain, in minuscule quantities, sorted by descending lusciousness. The scores are massive, up to a 100-pointer Appy Friday exclusive to be announced later today.

We’re in the Mosel, dear Operatives aka Riesling heaven, the common denominator being peak acidities to balance all that ethereal sweet scrumptiousness. Each being a RARE micro production gem that needs to be seized like this fleeting moment, when they are gone, they are GONE for good.

How big is Molitor? Of the 50-something Rieslings that have scored 100 points, half are by Molitor. Next are come the likes of Dönnhoff or Fritz Haag… so Molitor is KING.

Take it away Wine Advocate: “Here is another collection like no other from one of the world’s greatest winemakers… The Rieslings are all from renowned steep slate slopes along the Middle Mosel and Saar - something like the Mount Everest, K2 and Nanga Parbat of the Riesling world. What the former dressage rider, race-car driver and pedantically precise winemaker fills into bottles is the very best of what winemaking art has to offer. Dry Molitors come with a white capsule, feinherb (medium-dry to medium-sweet) with a lime green capsule and the sweet with a golden capsule…”

With that guidance in place, they wrap things up by asking “Which wine to choose out of so many if it isn’t one of the costly top scorers? I can’t take this decision off your hands… but whatever you choose, you will hardly be disappointed.”

Choose away, while they last!

98 Points – Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate

“The 2020 Riesling Bernkasteler Lay Auslese ** (White Capsule) is pure, refined and fresh on the precise and concentrated but bright and shining, transcendental nose that is intense and ripe but doesn’t show any tropical fruit aromas. Crystalline, highly refined and saline on the palate, this is a rich and very intense Riesling whose electric acidity takes all the weight and concentration up a steep flight to heaven, where the wine flies possibly forever like a satellite around the globe. The finish is so juicy, so saline and so precise that one can’t leave the glass without a sense of wonder. So much finesse and intensity in one glass? Drink 2030-2070.”