Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses, spicy Sichuan or Thai cuisine, and fruit-based desserts like peach tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary, precipitous slopes of the Mosel, Dr. Loosen's Brauneberger Juffer Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese is a masterclass in tension and sweetness. The 'Juffer' (meaning 'virgin') vineyard name pays homage to the three unmarried daughters of an 18th-century local nobleman who preferred tending their family's vines over marriage. Within this historic site lies the 'Sonnenuhr' (sundial) parcel, a steep, south-facing amphitheater of pure Devonian blue slate. This unique terroir acts as a solar collector, radiating heat back to the 100% Riesling grapes and fostering the noble rot essential for Auslese. Dr. Loosen crafts this wine using traditional methods, fermenting with native yeasts to preserve the vineyard's intense minerality, rich stone fruit character, and electric acidity.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Dr. Loosen stands as one of the preeminent global ambassadors of Germany's Mittelmosel. Under family ownership for more than two centuries, the estate experienced an epochal renaissance after Ernst 'Erni' Loosen assumed leadership in 1988. Loosen immediately implemented draconian yield restrictions, prohibited chemical fertilizers, and embraced spontaneous fermentations in neutral oak Fuder casks, frequently practicing extended lees contact. The domaine's strength rests in its holdings of ancient, ungrafted vines—many over a century old—clinging to perilous, south-facing slate amphitheaters. These steep slopes span blue Devonian slate in the Wehlener Sonnenuhr, red volcanic-slate colluvium in the Ürziger Würzgarten, and heat-retaining cliffs in the Erdener Prälat. Dr. Loosen is renowned both for crystalline, classically delicate Prädikat expressions defined by buoyant acidity and low alcohol, and for benchmark dry Grosses Gewächs bottlings that celebrate age-worthy, mineral-driven tension.