Stolzenberg Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
pan-seared trout, roasted pork belly, spiced Asian cuisine
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Stolzenberg, translating to the 'Proud Mountain,' is one of the Mosel's most dramatic terraced vineyards, where vines cling to near-vertical cliffs. Heymann-Löwenstein's Stolzenberg Riesling captures the intense, dramatic spirit of this site. The terroir is defined by a complex mosaic of blue and grey slate interspersed with hard quartzite, which imparts a profound flinty minerality and a distinct smoky tension to the wine. Crafted with a philosophy of minimal intervention, the grapes undergo spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts and are aged in traditional, large oak Fuder casks. This slow, natural process coaxes out a multi-layered masterpiece of wild herbs, ripe stone fruit, and a vibrating, saline finish that reflects the ancient geological history 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%