Schimbock Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout with brown butter and lemon, roast pork loin with apple reduction, or aged Comté cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Emerging from a steeply pitched, once-abandoned amphitheater on the banks of the Mosel, this cuvée is sourced from un-grafted, old-vine Riesling grown in shallow, weathered Devonian slate. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts, followed by an extensive maturation on fine lees primarily in neutral traditional German oak casks (Fuder) and stainless steel. The resulting dry profile highlights deep mineral concentration, high-toned tension, and crystalline slate salinity typical of heroic steep-slope viticulture.
🍾 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
12.0%