Riesling Schieferterrassen
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout, spicy Thai green curry, roasted pork loin
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Schieferterrassen' (slate terraces) serves as Heymann-Löwenstein's magnificent calling card, capturing the dramatic spirit of the Terrassenmosel. Sourced from incredibly steep, terraced vineyards in Winningen where vines cling to weathered Devonian slate soils, this wine is a masterclass in mineral expression. The estate's philosophy views wine as a liquid translation of rock, and this bottling embodies that connection. The grapes are harvested by hand on dizzying slopes that require heroic manual labor, followed by spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts and extended aging on the lees in traditional large oak casks. This low-intervention approach coaxes out a textured, complex, and intensely mineral Riesling that offers a dry, structural, and deeply aromatic profile rich with wild herbs, stone fruit, and smoky slate notes.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1980 by Reinhard Löwenstein and Cornelia Heymann-Löwenstein, Weingut Heymann-Löwenstein is situated in Winningen within the dramatic, vertiginous Terrassenmosel region of Germany. Renowned as a pioneering visionary of terroir-driven, dry Mosel Riesling, the estate champions low-intervention cellar practices, ambient yeast fermentations, and meticulous organic viticulture across extreme slate terraces. Cultivating celebrated Grand Cru vineyards such as Winninger Röttgen and the intricately geologized Winninger Uhlen, the winery creates wines deeply reflective of their distinct slate soils. Their celebrated portfolio ranges from profound, mineral-rich Grosses Gewächs dry Rieslings to intensely layered, botrytized dessert wines of remarkable longevity.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12% - 12.5%