Winery: Weingut Reinhold Haart
Region: VDP Grosse Lage—Mosel (Germany)
Vintage: 2018
Bottle: 375 ml
Grape Varieties: 100% Riesling
Type: Sweet Riesling
Alcohol Volume: 6.5% vol.
Serving Temperature: 10º - 12º
Haart Riesling Goldtröpfchen beerenauslese 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 spontaneously with indigenous yeast. After a long and slow fermentation at cool temperatures, the wine is bottled almost eight months after harvest.
Beerenauslese: A very rare wine made only in exceptional circumstances from overripe grapes affected by noble rot (Botrytis). Each berry is shrivelled and individually selected on a grape-by-grape basis. They must achieve an Oechsle level of 110-128º. These are noble wines with an intense bouquet and taste that can age for decades.
Tasting Notes:
Intense, elegant, fresh, mineral, fragrant nose, honeyed notes and tropical fruits. Intensely sweet, full-bodied with a remarkable complexity and elegance. Presents an exquisite fruitiness and a great minerally flavour. Ripe fruit flavours with sweet, honeyed flavours and mouth-watering acidity in perfect balance. Long, juicy and complex finish.
Notes: Beerenauslese are long-lived wines, with an age potential of up to two decades or more. With time they evolve and gain in complexity and expression.
Ideal with cheeses, foie gras and all kinds of desserts.
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 ageing 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 amphitheatre 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.
