Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese Tradition
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheeses such as Roquefort, classic fruit tarts or apple strudel, and spicy Asian dishes like Thai green curry.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wehlener Sonnenuhr, or 'Sundial of Wehlen,' is one of the most iconic vineyards in Germany's Mosel valley, famous for its precipitously steep slopes of pure blue Devonian slate. This legendary site, named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm, yields 100% Riesling of extraordinary elegance and minerality. Under the stewardship of Ernst Loosen, whose family has estate-bottled Mosel wines for over two centuries, this Auslese Tradition is crafted from selectively harvested, botrytis-affected grapes. Fermented traditionally in large, neutral oak casks (Fuder), it beautifully balances rich, honeyed stone fruit sweetness with a vibrant, electric spine of slate-driven 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.