Kirchberg Riesling GG
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared freshwater fish, roasted pork belly, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Kirchberg is one of the Terrassenmosel's most dramatic sites, where vines cling to dizzyingly steep, terraced cliffs of dark Devonian slate interspersed with quartzite. This unique geological composition gives the Kirchberg Riesling GG its signature flinty, smoky minerality and intense structural drive. Heymann-Löwenstein's approach in this vineyard is defined by minimal intervention: the grapes are harvested by hand, gently pressed, and fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts in traditional large oak fuder casks. Extended contact with the lees imparts a rich, textured mouthfeel that beautifully balances the wine's razor-sharp acidity and vibrant stone fruit and herbal notes. The resulting Grosses Gewächs is a profound expression of place, capturing the raw, wild energy of the Mosel's ancient slate terraces.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Heymann-Löwenstein was founded in 1980 by Reinhard Löwenstein and Cornelia Heymann-Löwenstein in Winningen, revitalizing centuries of familial viticultural heritage in the Terrassenmosel. Championing the dramatic, steeply terraced slopes along the lower Mosel, the estate tends approximately 14 hectares of dry-stone wall vineyards tilted up to 80 percent gradients. The viticultural terroir centers on heterogeneous Devonian slate formations, distinguished into blue-gray slate, iron-rich red slate, and fossil-infused calcareous slate. Winemaking adheres to an uncompromising, artisanal ethos: hand-harvested grapes undergo native-yeast fermentation in traditional wooden Fuder casks without additions, followed by long contact with fine lees and late bottling up to 24 months post-harvest. Member of the VDP since 1997, the estate excels in dense, bone-dry, age-worthy Grosses Gewächs bottlings from benchmark crus like Winninger Uhlen—divided into Roth Lay, Laubach, and Blaufüsser Lay—as well as Röttgen, Kirchberg, and the harmonious regional cuvée Schieferterrassen.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12.5-13%