Winery: Weingut Reinhold Haart
Region: Mosel ( Germany)
Vintage: 2021
Bottle: 75 cl
Grape Varieties: 100% Riesling
Type: Off-Dry Riesling
Alcohol Volume: 10.5 %
Serving Temperature: 8º - 10º
The Haart to Heart Riesling Feinherb comes from vineyards on steep gradients of 70% in the village of Piesport, planted on clay slate soils with good south-facing exposure.
Hand-piked grapes. The must is partially fermented with indigenous yeasts, going through a long and slow fermentation at cool temperatures. Resting for a short time with its fine lees before its bottling, approximately, eight months after the harvest.
Classified as VDP.Gutswein, the introduction to the world of VDP wines. Wines, with already at this level, display an evidently high quality standard and the signature of the winery. It guarantees that all grapes come exclusively from vineyards owned and cultivated by the winery.
Tasting Notes: Very fresh start, fine nose of ripe peaches and apricots, mature yellow fruits. On the palate, the acidity plays elegantly with the natural residual sugar, slightly honeyed ripe fruit, and delicate grapefruit in the finish.
Notes: A versatile handcrafted wine for everyday enjoyment. Excellent accompaniment to light cuisine, especially Asian cuisine. After 2-3 years of bottle aging, Piesporter wines are known for developing a more lush bouquet, and they pair well with hearty dishes.
THE WINERY
The Haart family takes pride in being one of the oldest local winemaking families in this part of the Mosel. Weingut Reinhold Haart is without doubt a privileged place by the Mosel’s riverbank, in the village of Piesport, in the very heart of the Mosel, that has been producing wines since 1337 from grapes grown exclusively in their own estate in one of the region’s best vineyards.
Today, their 8 ha of vineyards on a diversity of sites produce a wide range of elegant and fine Riesling wines from the ripe fruit and its excellent terroir. Vineyards climb uphill in steep sites overlooking the river, exposed to the sunlight, and growing on slate rich soils. Yields are kept low, and the fermentation takes place in cool conditions with natural yeasts either in stainless steel or in traditional oak barrels. Their wines have natural fruit sweetness and a great ageing potential.
Piesport is a small town on a sharp bend in the Mosel river in the Mosel wine district of Germany. The town of Piesport contains the ideal sites for wine-growing, a steep amphitheater facing south. The name of the slopes flanking the village: the single vineyard site, Goldtröpfchen (Little Drop of Gold), is a splendid south-facing site protected from winds by its location on a river loop.
The soil is quite complex, composed of quartz with stony clay and slate, rich in iron oxide, and it is famous for gently honeyed wines with great fragrance and very mineral character. Here, half the wines are classified as great growth and the other half as first growth. The vast plantation across the river is known as Piesporter Treppchen.
