Weingut Fritz Haag is one of the Mosel’s most enduring and quietly brilliant estates — a winery whose reputation rests on detail, balance, and the singular beauty of Riesling grown on slate. Situated in the village of Brauneberg, along a sweeping bend of the Mosel River, Fritz Haag has produced wines from these steep, stony vineyards since 1605. Under the guidance of Oliver Haag, who took over from his father Wilhelm in 2005, the estate continues to craft wines that speak not only of terroir, but of time, precision, and extraordinary composure.

The crown jewels of the estate are its parcels in Brauneberger Juffer and Juffer-Sonnenuhr — south-facing, iron-rich slopes of blue Devonian slate, among the most revered vineyards in Germany. These steep terraces yield fruit of high acidity, fine aromatics, and mineral intensity — qualities that give the wines their hallmark tension and age-worthiness. Farming is sustainable and increasingly organic, with every vine tended by hand on vertiginous slopes where machines cannot follow.

In the cellar, Oliver Haag works with elegance and restraint. Grapes are hand-sorted and pressed gently. Fermentations are spontaneous, often long and slow, carried out in stainless steel or old Mosel fuders (large oak casks) depending on the wine. Sulphur is used sparingly, and the wines are never pushed toward a style — instead, they emerge from the vineyard and vintage with clarity and grace. Both dry and Prädikat wines are made, with a signature thread of mineral finesse across the spectrum.

The wines are precise, lifted, and endlessly pure. Kabinett is ethereal — lime zest, white peach, and spring herbs carried on slate and air. Spätlese is textured and luminous, while Auslese shows saffron, yellow orchard fruit, and a wash of sweetness over mineral core. The dry wines, including GG bottlings, are taut and focused — saline, flinty, and structured for decades. Across all levels, Fritz Haag’s Rieslings are models of discipline and expression.

What defines Fritz Haag is its balance of stillness and strength — a house where Riesling is not made to shine brightly, but to glow quietly over time.

These are wines that feel carved from slate and air — timeless, mineral, and held in perfect composure by a lineage that has never wavered.