Heerkretz Riesling – 2021

Discover the excellent Heerkretz Riesling from Weingut Steitz

The Heerkretz Riesling 2021 from Weingut Steitz is a mineral single-vineyard wine from Rheinhessen. Recently awarded 92 points at the Vinum Riesling Champion in the "dry single-vineyard wine" category.

Take your time with this single-vineyard Riesling and pour it into a large glass so it can open up and show you what it's made of. Slowly, notes of citrus, herbs, and wet stone emerge from the glass. On the palate, the Heerkretz Riesling shows great intensity, and its wonderful acidity provides liveliness in the mouth. Again, complex aromas of grapefruit, lemon zest, sea buckthorn, and bergamot meet cool exoticism, smoky flint, fine herbal spice, and intense saltiness.

The Steitz Heerkretz Riesling is powerful and elegant, stringent and multi-layered, and will certainly benefit from a few more years of bottle aging. It already pairs well with pasta with salmon and lemon sauce, couscous with preserved lemon and corn-fed chicken, or cod in an egg-herb crust with young potatoes.

Heerkretz Single Vineyard in Rheinhessen

The 14 hectares of vineyards of Weingut Steitz in Rheinhessen are distributed around the wine villages of Stein-Bockenheim, Siefersheim, and Fürfeld, protected from heavy rainfall by the Donnersberg. In the single vineyard Heerkretz at approximately 250m above sea level, one of the highest elevations in Rheinhessen with optimal conditions for complex cool-climate wines, the vines for the premium Heerkretz Riesling grow on volcanic rock soils. The weathered porphyry allows the topsoil to dry out quickly, the vine strives deep, and the cool wind ensures acid-preserving ripening phases, which gives the Riesling bite, salty minerality, and an unmistakable character.

Grown on porphyry, the Riesling grapes are a selection from the single vineyard Heerkretz. After hand-harvesting and slow fermentation, a long aging on the lees followed, 100% in large wooden barrels. Thus, the elegant Heerkretz Riesling best showcases its terroir.

Riesling – a wine and its values

• Origin Wine from Germany
• Growing region Rheinhessen
• Single vineyard Heerkretz
• Grape variety Riesling
• 12% vol alcohol
• 7.5 g/l acidity
• 2.1 g/l residual sugar

Weingut Christian and Diana Steitz

Christian and Diana Steitz have taken on a lot in recent years. In 2015, nine years ago, the two completely took over the winery from Christian's parents. It started with redesigning the labels and a new homepage. This was followed by major renovations at the winery and the newly designed guest rooms, but the change went much deeper. Christian Steitz found his own style, increasingly pursuing more natural methods in winemaking, experimenting with orange wines and Prädikatsweine. A great development that we have been fortunate to accompany for more than 15 years. Straightforward, unadulterated, and authentic with a clear focus on the essentials - these are wines from Weingut Steitz. Keep it up. Weingut Steitz is a member of Maxime Herkunft Rheinhessen.