The Mosel follows the Mosel, Saar and Ruwer rivers through steep vineyard country in Germany. Some sites reach a 70-degree gradient, and the region has 524 officially listed individual vineyards. Riesling is the main grape, planted across 5,156 hectares.
Slate shapes both the ground and the wine. It breaks into thin layers that drain well and encourage deep roots. Dark slate can give Riesling a flinty, rock-flour character beneath aromas of citrus and lime, flowers, apple, pear, peach, apricot, mango and passion fruit. Some wines develop nutty notes or petrol with age.
Mosel Riesling ranges from mineral-dry and off-dry to fruity and noble-sweet styles, including Eiswein, which can be relatively low in alcohol. Saar Rieslings tend to be lighter and more elegant than those from the Middle Mosel. Labels may also use Prädikat terms such as Kabinett, Spätlese and Auslese after an official quality examination and assignment of an examination number.
Inside the region
1 named area
Each guide keeps its place within Mosel clear, with a direct route back to the map.
Producer profiles
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- Ewald Theod. DrathenMosel wine business with Untouched White, a three grape blend, and Königsmosel Riesling made from Riesling alone.
- MosellandA Bernkastel-Kues winegrowers’ cooperative whose Mosel Rieslings make German sweetness levels and regional character easy to taste.
- S.A. PrümA Bernkastel-Wehlen Mosel estate centred on Riesling, with dry, mineral Blue at estate-wine level and spontaneously fermented Grosses Gewächs matured in traditional Fuder barrels.
- Schmitt SöhneSchmitt Söhne is a fifth-generation, family-owned wine company based in Longuich on the Mosel. Riesling runs through its history and range, from lightly sweet Mosel Kabinett to sparkling wine and concentrated Rheinhessen Eiswein.
- Weingut Axel PaulyA Lieser estate in the Central Moselle, where Axel Pauly turns Riesling from steep, weathered slate slopes into dry and off-dry wines with citrus, peach and lively acidity.
- Weingut BlesiusA small Graach estate making site-designated Mosel Riesling from steep, weathered Devonian-slate slopes.
- Weingut Carl LoewenThree-person Mosel estate producing Riesling only from 18 hectares of ungrafted old vines, anchored by a single parcel planted in 1896 that Stuart Pigott called one of the best dry white wines in the world.
- Weingut Daniel FriesDaniel Fries makes dry Riesling and Pinot Noir in Winningen on the Terrassenmosel, drawing on steep slate terraces, a cool northern climate and a family wine history that reaches back to the mid-18th century.
- Weingut DeutschherrenhofFamily-run Trier estate led by sixth-generation winemaker Sebastian Oberbillig, with 12 hectares and a Riesling-led range from dry wines to Prädikat bottlings.
- Weingut Dr. HermannMosel Riesling from steep, old-vine sites around Ürzig and Erden, where dry GG, Kabinett and Spätlese show vineyard and ripeness in distinctly different forms.
- Weingut Dr. LoosenA family-owned Mosel estate producing dry Red Slate Riesling and residual-sweetness Erdener Treppchen Kabinett.
- Weingut Fritz HaagMosel Riesling from Brauneberg’s Juffer and Juffer Sonnenuhr slate slopes, made dry and fruity-sweet.
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- Weingut HainA family-run Piesport estate where clay slate, steep Mosel slopes and Riesling shape wines from dry Goldtröpfchen to feinherb Kabinett.
- Weingut Hoffmann-SimonA Piesport family estate making Riesling-led Mosel wines from six sites across four villages, with organic farming and a clear focus on named Riesling bottlings.
- Weingut Julius TreisA Reil estate on the Middle Mosel, where Tobias Treis shapes hand-worked Riesling from steep slopes.
- Weingut KerpenA 9.5-hectare, Riesling-led family estate in Bernkastel-Wehlen, shaping dry and feinherb Mosel wines from Devonian-slate sites including Wehlener Sonnenuhr and Graacher Himmelreich.
- Weingut KlosterhofA family-run Brauneberg estate making slate-grown Mosel Riesling from a former monastery cellar.
- Weingut KnebelWinningen Riesling from Terrassenmosel terraces so steep that vineyard work relies on hand labour and, in places, monorail access.
- Weingut Leo FuchsA family-owned Pommern estate, working steep south-facing Mosel vineyards and dry Riesling led by Vom Grauen Schiefer.
- Weingut Markus MolitorA Mosel estate led by Markus Molitor since 1984, working steep slate vineyards across the Mosel, Saar and Ruwer through hand harvesting, repeated selection and a wide Riesling-led range.
- Weingut Martin MüllenA small family estate in Traben-Trarbach, making dry Mosel Riesling with hand-picked fruit, historic basket pressing, spontaneous fermentation and traditional wooden-cask ageing.
- Weingut Nik WeisMosel and Saar Riesling from a 1947 estate whose vineyards run for about 60 kilometres along both rivers.
- Weingut Nik Weis -St.UrbanshofA family Riesling estate in Leiwen, founded in 1947, with vineyards running along the Mosel and Saar.
- Weingut PaulinshofA family-owned Mosel estate in Kesten, where Oliver Jüngling makes dry Riesling from steep vineyards in Kesten and Brauneberg.
- Weingut Reuscher-HaartA Piesport, Middle Mosel Riesling estate whose dry and fruity-sweet named-site wines pair acidity with lees-aged texture.
- Weingut Schloss SaarsteinA family estate in Serrig on the Saar, where hand-worked slate slopes and Riesling shape a focused Kabinett range.
- Weingut SchmitgesAn Erden estate in the Central Moselle, Weingut Schmitges works mainly with Riesling from grey and red clay slate. Its dry Grauschiefer and feinherb Vom Berg show how cellar handling changes the grape’s shape.
- Weingut Sybille KuntzLieser Mosel Riesling from steep slate sites, farmed without herbicides or pesticides since 1990 and Demeter biodynamically since 2016.
- Weingut TrossenA Kindel Riesling estate in the middle Mosel, where Rita and Rudolf Trossen pair biodynamic farming with slow, low-intervention cellar work.
- Weingut Van VolxemSaar Riesling and long-aged sparkling wine from Wiltingen, shaped by named vineyards, manual vineyard work and patient cellar ageing.
- Weingut WernerA small, Riesling-led Mosel estate in Leiwen, where Bernhard Werner turns steep-slope fruit into dry and feinherb wines with citrus, weight and brisk acidity.
- Weingut Willems-WillemsA six-hectare Saar estate making dry and feinherb Riesling from sheltered, south-facing vineyards above Konz-Oberemmel.
- Weingut Wwe Dr H Thanisch Erben ThanischA twelve-generation Mosel Riesling estate, founded in 1636, with long-held Berncasteler Doctor parcels and wines from dry to sweet.
- Weingüter WegelerFamily-run since 1882, Weingüter Wegeler makes Riesling across the Mosel and Rheingau, with Bernkasteler Doctor at the heart of its Mosel holdings.