Winninger Schieferterrassen Riesling QbA
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with lemon butter, spiced Thai green curry, roasted pork belly
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Schieferterrassen Riesling is a love letter to the dramatic, gravity-defying terraces of the lower Mosel, known as the Terrassenmosel. The name 'Schieferterrassen' translates directly to 'slate terraces,' paying homage to the fractured Devonian slate soils that cling to these dizzyingly steep slopes. Hand-harvested from various terraced parcels in Winningen, this wine captures the intense minerality and warmth of the slate, which acts as a natural heat reservoir during the day. Under the low-intervention philosophy of the Heymann-Löwenstein estate, the juice undergoes spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts and rests on its lees in traditional large oak casks. This patient process coaxes out a multi-layered, dry Riesling that challenges the historical stereotype of sweet Mosel wines, offering instead a profound, texturally complex expression of pure liquid stone, wild herbs, and vibrant citrus.
🍾 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%