Rudesheimer Berg Schlossberg Riesling BA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roquefort or Stilton blue cheese, seared foie gras with spiced orchard fruit, or classic apricot tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched on precipitous slopes directly overlooking the Rhine riverbend, the Rüdesheimer Berg Schlossberg is characterized by skeletal Devonian slate, Taunus quartzite, and extreme gradients exceeding 60 percent. For this Beerenauslese, heavily botrytized berries are harvested via painstaking, multi-pass manual selections to concentrate noble rot while preserving fresh acidity. The concentrated must undergoes a gentle pressing and a very slow, temperature-controlled fermentation, followed by maturation in neutral vessels to showcase unadorned site expression and complex, botrytis-derived aromatics.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Leitz traces its familial viticultural ancestry back to 1744, though its modern renaissance commenced in 1985 when Johannes Leitz assumed control of the war-ravaged, 2.9-hectare family estate in Rüdesheim am Rhein. Through meticulous parcel acquisition and restoration of steep, historic slate and quartzite terraces, Leitz transformed the domaine into a premier Rheingau reference point. The estate's premier holdings encompass celebrated VDP.Grosse Lagen crus on the dramatic south-facing slopes of the Rüdesheimer Berg, including Berg Schlossberg, Berg Roseneck, Berg Kaisersteinfels, and Berg Rottland Hinterhaus. Farming is conducted sustainably under FAIR'N GREEN certification, employing green cover crops, pomace composting, and manual slope work. Cellar practices combine spontaneous fermentation in stainless steel and neutral Stückfass casks, yielding dry Rieslings characterized by crystalline minerality, razor-sharp tension, and phenolic depth, alongside innovative benchmarks such as the non-alcoholic Eins Zwei Zero portfolio.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
6-8%