Molitor's 2016 Pinot Noir "Haus Klosterberg"—a wine that is usually sold out before it has been bottled—opens with a deliciously fine and fruity bouquet of perfectly ripe cherry and raspberry aromas along with black berries and wild strawberries, and all of this is intermixed with refreshing, crunchy/flinty slate aromas. I tasted the wine for the first time during lunch and from a bottle that had been open for four days. Today I am writing this tasting note based on a sample from the same bottle, which has now been open for six days—and it is in great shape! Fermented for five weeks in stainless steel, basket-pressed and then aged for 20 months in barriques, the 2015 is a medium to full-bodied, pure, fresh and very elegant Pinot Noir grown on many different (slate) spots along the Mosel. Silky textured and fine yet full of tension, this has a crystalline and crunchy character with refreshing mineral purity and salinity in the finish. This 2015 is not a big or super concentrated wine but an authentic representative of the Mosel made with the highest technical standards. The wine reveals its little greatness even from the emptied glass, which shows beautifully fine and alluringly ripe, sweet red berries intertwined with very fine slate flavors.