Winninger Rottgen Riesling BA
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit-based tarts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched on the dizzyingly steep, terraced cliffs of the Terrassenmosel, the Winninger Röttgen vineyard is a dramatic amphitheater of stone and vine. The name 'Röttgen' historically refers to the clearing of the land ('roden') and the striking, iron-rich reddish slate that defines this grand cru site. In exceptional vintages, when autumn mists from the Mosel River encourage the development of noble rot (Botrytis cinerea), Heymann-Löwenstein crafts this rare Beerenauslese. Every single shriveled, honeyed berry is painstakingly selected by hand during multiple passes through the vineyard. Fermented slowly with indigenous yeasts, the resulting wine is a monumental expression of concentrated minerality, vibrant acidity, and luscious sweetness, capturing the wild, untamed spirit of one of Germany's most challenging viticultural landscapes.
🍾 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