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
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