Kalkstein Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh oysters, pan-seared trout, goat cheese salad
✨ Technical Specifications
While Julian Haart is globally renowned for his steep-slope Mosel slate Rieslings, his Kalkstein (Limestone) Riesling is a brilliant homage to his formative years training under the legendary Klaus Peter Keller in Rheinhessen. Sourced from active limestone soils in Rheinhessen, this wine captures a completely different geological energy than his Mosel classics. The ancient, shell-rich limestone deposits impart a structural, chalky, and intensely saline character to the wine. Fermented spontaneously with native yeasts and raised with minimal intervention, it represents a perfect marriage of Haarts signature feather-light precision and the powerful, electric tension characteristic of Rheinhessens finest limestone terroirs.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 2010 by Julian Haart alongside his wife Nadine, Weingut Julian Haart has rapidly emerged as one of the Mosel's most revered artisan domains. Born into a multi-century Piesport winegrowing lineage, Julian refined his craft through pivotal apprenticeships under icons Egon Müller, Klaus Peter Keller, and Werner Schönleber. The estate farms approximately five hectares, centering on vertigo-inducing, blue-slate Grand Cru terraces in the Mosel—notably Wintricher Ohligsberg and Piesporter Goldtröpfchen—alongside prestigious limestone parcels in Rheinhessen obtained through parcel exchanges with Keller. Viticulture relies entirely on meticulous manual labor without synthetic inputs, preserving ungrafted, century-old vines. In the cellar, Haart practices spontaneous fermentation in traditional neutral wooden Fuder and stainless steel with minimal intervention. The resulting Rieslings, ranging from razor-sharp dry Kalkstein and site bottlings to ethereal Kabinetts, display crystalline precision, saline tension, filigreed sweetness, and profound slate-driven minerality.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling