Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Artisanal blue cheeses, rich foie gras or savory duck pâté, and moderately spiced classic Sichuan or Thai cuisine.
✨ Technical Specifications
Nestled in the dramatic, steep bends of the Mosel River, the Wehlener Sonnenuhr (Sundial of Wehlen) vineyard is a legendary grand cru site. Its name derives from the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide vineyard workers. Dr. Loosen's Auslese Goldkapsel represents an extraordinary, highly selective harvest of botrytised grapes from ancient, ungrafted vines rooted in pure blue Devonian slate. The Goldkapsel designation denotes a reserve bottling of exceptional richness, where the luscious sweetness of noble rot is perfectly counterbalanced by the Mosel's trademark electric, vibrant acidity and a deep, stony minerality.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling