Steep, rocky vineyards in the lower part of the hillside of my village Winningen, which we are still able to work with a tractor. The soil consists of a mixture of slate and sand, as the rubble from the hillside mixes with the more fertile sedimentary soil in the valley. This richer kind of soil provides a more luscious, succulent style of Riesling yet it shows the spicy minerality that we associate with Riesling from slate.
