Winninger Rottgen Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared scallops, roasted pork belly, spicy Thai curry
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Röttgen Riesling is a masterclass in the extreme viticulture of the Terrassenmosel. Clinging to near-vertical, south-facing terraces of decomposed blue Devonian slate, the Röttgen vineyard forms a natural amphitheater that traps the sun's warmth, balanced by the cooling drafts of the Mosel River. This dramatic topography has been cultivated since Roman times, demanding grueling hand-labor. Heymann-Löwenstein coaxes a profound expression from this site through spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in traditional large oak fuder casks, followed by extensive lees aging. The resulting wine is renowned for its intense, smoky minerality, vibrant acidity, and rich, exotic yellow fruit notes, capturing the wild spirit of one of Germany's most challenging and prestigious vineyard sites.
🍾 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% - 13%