Kirchberg Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted pork belly, spicy Thai curry, grilled sea bass
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Kirchberg, or 'Church Hill', is one of the Mosel's most dramatic steep-slope vineyards, rising directly behind the village church in Winningen. Characterized by its unique soil composition of soft, weathered Devonian slate mixed with quartz, this site enjoys a slightly cooler microclimate that preserves vibrant acidity. Heymann-Löwenstein crafts this Riesling using traditional, low-intervention methods: spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in large, neutral oak casks (Fuder) followed by extensive contact with the fine lees. This patient approach coaxes out a deeply mineral, structured wine defined by smoky flint, wild herbs, and intense stone fruit, embodying the wild, untamed spirit of the Terrassenmosel.
🍾 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% - 13%