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
Founded in 2010 by Julian and Nadine Haart, Weingut Julian Haart is situated in the historic village of Piesport along Germany's Middle Mosel. Having honed his craft under iconic masters such as Klaus Peter Keller and Egon Müller, Julian quickly established his boutique estate as one of Germany's most revered modern cult producers. Cultivating prized, precipitous slate terroirs including Piesporter Goldtröpfchen, Wintricher Ohligsberg, and the legendary ungrafted vines of Schubertslay, the winery prioritizes meticulous vineyard management and low-intervention cellar practices. Julian Haart is acclaimed for producing breathtakingly crystalline, tension-filled Rieslings and refined Pinot Noirs that showcase extraordinary precision, electric acidity, and profound site-specific minerality.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling