Schieferterrassen Eiswein
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, fruit-based desserts, rich pâté
✨ Technical Specifications
An extraordinary and exceptionally rare nectar, the Schieferterrassen Eiswein from Heymann-Löwenstein represents a triumph of nature and extreme viticulture. The term 'Schieferterrassen' pays homage to the dizzyingly steep, slate-terraced vineyards of Winningen in the Terrassenmosel. Eiswein can only be crafted in years when winter temperatures plunge to at least minus seven degrees Celsius, freezing the water inside the grapes on the vine. Harvested by hand in the freezing dark of early morning, these icy berries are pressed immediately to yield a highly concentrated, sweet juice. The resulting wine is a brilliant tension between luscious, honeyed sweetness and the piercing, electric acidity characteristic of Riesling grown on pure slate soils.
🍾 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