In the glass
Aroma: sun-kissed peach, musk, smoky flint
Palate: yellow fruit, saline, enormous mineral length
A dry Grosses Gewachs from the steep Winninger Rottgen: sun-kissed peach, musk and smoky flint over copious yellow fruit, with enormous minerality, length and a saline finish.
What it pairs with
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Roast guinea fowl
Power, yellow fruit and salinity match the dark poultry. -
Grilled monkfish
Smoky flint and minerality echo the charred fish. -
Mosel river trout meuniere
Bright slate-driven acidity and citrus mirror the brown-butter and lemon of the local fish.
History
A dry Grosses Gewachs from the steep Winninger Rottgen: sun-kissed peach, musk and smoky flint over copious yellow fruit, with enormous minerality, length and a saline finish.
Facts
- Producer
- Weingut Heymann-Lowenstein
- Grapes
- Riesling
- Classification
- VDP.Grosse Lage Mosel
- Price
- EUR 50 to 85 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8 to 30 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1995
Scores
- Vinous 93 (2019 vintage, reviewed 2021)