Winninger Rottgen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, fruit-based desserts
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Röttgen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel is a sublime expression of the Terrassenmosel's dramatic, slate-strewn cliffs. The Röttgen vineyard, a dizzyingly steep amphitheater of crumbling blue Devonian slate, catches the intense reflection of the Mosel river, creating a unique microclimate. Here, morning mists encourage the development of noble rot (botrytis), which concentrates the grapes' sugars and acids to an extraordinary degree. Heymann-Löwenstein coaxes this liquid gold through spontaneous fermentation in traditional large oak casks. The resulting wine is a masterclass in tension, balancing opulent, exotic stone fruit and honeyed botrytis notes with a piercing, stony minerality and vibrant acidity that prevents the sweetness from ever feeling heavy.
🍾 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