von blauem Schiefer Beerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit-based tarts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted only in exceptional vintages when weather conditions allow for the perfect development of botrytis cinerea, this rare Beerenauslese showcases the intense mineral signature of the Terrassenmosel's steep, blue Devonian slate soils. The 'von blauem Schiefer' designation reflects the unique terroir of Winningen's sheer terraced cliffs, where the dark blue slate absorbs the daytime sun and radiates heat back to the vines overnight, imparting a distinctively cool, flinty, and crystalline minerality to the grapes. To produce this liquid gold, individual botrytised berries are painstakingly selected by hand during multiple passes through the vineyards. In the cellar, the estate's low-intervention philosophy allows for a slow, spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts. The resulting wine is a masterclass in tension, balancing luscious, honeyed concentration with the electric, vibrant acidity characteristic of the Mosel's finest Rieslings.
🍾 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