Winery: Weingut Reinhold Haart
Region: VDP Grosse Lage—Mosel (Germany)
Vintage: 2019
Bottle: 375 ml
Grape Varieties: 100% Riesling
Type: Sweet Riesling
Alcohol Volume: 8% vol.
Serving Temperature: 10º - 12º
Haart Riesling Goldtröpfchen Auslese comes from vineyards on steep gradients of 70% in the Goldtröpfchen area, a 60-hectare escarpment of clay slate soils and south-facing slopes that rises directly above the small village of Piesport. In this top location, yields are extremely reduced (50 hl/ha).
Vinification:
Hand-picked grapes in early November after going through a careful selection at the vineyard according to maximum ripeness and noble rot. The must is fermented with indigenous yeast. After a long and slow fermentation at cool temperatures, the wine is bottled almost eight months after harvest. Residual sugar: 106.1 g/l
Auslese: Wines made from selected bunches of very ripe grapes, picked at a later stage than the general harvest and usually later than the Spätlese. Noble wines with an intense bouquet and taste that age beautifully, excellent with cheese plates and foie
Tasting Notes: Intense, elegant, fresh, mineral, fragrant nose, tropical fruits. Appealing palate of lemon, honey, ripe fruits, and refreshing minerality. The balance between fruit and acidity is perfect. Finishing long and complex.
Notes: Enjoyable as a sweet wine as young, but this is a promising wine that will gain in complexity and expression with age. Recommended drinking age over 10 to 15 years.
THE WINERY
The Haart family prides itself on 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, where the Haart family 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 from a diversity of sites produce a wide range of elegant and fine Riesling wines from the ripe fruit and its excellent terroir. Vineyards climbing 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 the traditional oak barrels.
Their wines are naturally fruit-sweet with a great aging potential.
The winery is a member of the Bernkasteler Ring, an association of the top wine estates of the Mosel, Saar and Ruwer river valleys and the oldest wine Auction Company in this growing area.
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 loop in the river. The soil is quite complex, composed of quartz with stony clay and slate, rich in iron oxide. 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.
