The leader, the team and the system behind the 120 hectares of hand-picked Mosel Riesling.
“It is a group operation,” Leon Michaelis exclaimed as he slipped into the back seat of the car that Marcel Zaschka, a cellar hand at Weingut Markus Molitor, was driving. Leon, who works in the Vinothek (tasting room or wine shop in German), was holding the keys to the apartment I would be staying in for almost the next two weeks. The keys clanked as he climbed into the back seat of the car we were in, his wide grin visible even in the darkness.
Little did I knew how true that sentence is for the entire operation.
It is…