After work experience at Keller, Heymann-Löwenstein, Schönleber and Egon Müller, Julian Haart took over the family’s small vineyard holdings in 2010 and has since grown the estate to five hectares, which he and his wife Nadine manage by themselves. Now in his eleventh vintage, he is making wines as exciting as any in the Mosel. They are well worth seeking out, and demand for them is set to increase, so get in while you can!

“There is general consensus in the informed wine world that the former star pupil (Julian Haart) of Klaus-Peter Keller is one of the greatest talents of the German wine industry in the last 20 years.” Jancis Robinson

In 2010 Julian’s purchased his first vineyard parcel, top center, in the grand cru site Ohligsberg, just downstream from the Goldtröpfchen The following year, he expanded the estate with two grand cru sites, the Goldtröpfchen and Schubertslay. The Goldtröpfchen parcel includes terraces established in the early 20th century and the Schuberstlay, one of the smallest single-vineyards in all of the Mosel with only about one hectare under vine, flaunts ungrafted vines around 100 years old. This is serious terroir. So serious, in fact, that as of vintage 2018 Julian has handed the Schubertslay vineyard over to one of his best friends, Klaus Peter Keller. This will be Keller’s first Mosel wine, which is a huge deal. In return, with vintage 2018, Julian will make a small amount of wine from Keller’s Frauenberg vineyard in the Rheinhessen.

“From vineyards that he exchanged with Keller. This is the declassified fruit from both sites, Frauenberg, a marl and limestone site with red clay, and Zellerweg am Schwarzen Herrgot, a more obscure site in a cool valley that’s just south and west of Keller’s home base in Flörsheim-Dalsheim, blended together to producer a stunning dry, village-level wine. This "RoteErden" is the declassified fruit from these two Grand Cru; this is a village-level dry Riesling only in name, as it is sourced from the two Grand Cru sites.”