Felsenfest Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with lemon-herb butter, fresh goat cheese crostini, Vietnamese summer rolls with shrimp.
✨ Technical Specifications
Sourced from steep slate slopes across the estate's Middle Mosel holdings, Felsenfest represents the estate's dry, energetic entry-level Gutswein expression. The organically farmed vines, rooted in weathered Devonian blue and grey slate, deliver vibrant mineral drive. Vinification is deliberately low-intervention, utilizing ambient yeasts for spontaneous fermentation predominantly in stainless steel vats and neutral large oak casks, followed by prolonged maturation on the fine lees to impart structural depth while preserving razor-sharp tension.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 2000 by the late Swiss visionary Daniel Vollenweider, Weingut Vollenweider played a pivotal role in revitalizing the forgotten, precipitously steep slopes of the Middle Mosel. Vollenweider began with just over one hectare in the historic Wolfer Goldgrube, salvaging centenarian, ungrafted Riesling vines trained in the traditional Mosel single-pole system. Following Vollenweider's passing in 2022, partner Moritz Hoffmann assumed leadership, maintaining heroic viticultural standards and securing certified organic status. Terroir here is dominated by weathered Devonian blue and grey slate forming a natural south-facing amphitheater overlooking the Mosel River. In the cellar, non-interventionist philosophies prevail: hand-harvested fruit undergoes spontaneous native-yeast fermentation in neutral oak casks and stainless steel, followed by extended lees aging. The estate's benchmark bottlings—such as the Wolfer Goldgrube Trocken, parcel selections like Unterste Jonpfad, and crystalline Prädikat expressions—are celebrated for their taut structural tension, electrifying natural acidity, deep mid-palate density, and profound slate salinity.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
11.5%