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
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% - 12.5%