von blauem Schiefer
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with lemon-herb butter, spicy Thai green curry, roasted pork belly.
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from the dizzyingly steep, terraced cliffs of the lower Mosel near Winningen, 'von blauem Schiefer' is a profound liquid translation of Devonian blue slate. Reinhard Löwenstein's revolutionary approach rejects traditional German sugar-based classifications in favor of terroir, showcasing how different slate colors shape the soul of Riesling. The blue slate imparts a cool, crystalline precision, marked by intense flinty minerality, wild herbs, and a taut, vibrating acidity. Crafted with minimal intervention, the grapes undergo spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts and spend extended time on the lees in traditional large oak Fuder casks. This slow, natural process coaxes out a deep, structured, and multi-layered white wine that captures the sheer, dramatic beauty of its vertical birthplace.
🍾 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%