Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich blue cheeses like Roquefort, spicy Asian dishes such as Thai red curry, and fruit-based desserts like classic apple tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
Nestled in the dramatic, steep bends of the Mosel River, the Wehlener Sonnenuhr (Sundial of Wehlen) vineyard is legendary. Named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide vineyard workers, this iconic site features pure, heat-retaining blue Devonian slate soils that impart a striking mineral intensity to the grapes. Dr. Loosen, under the visionary guidance of Ernst Loosen, crafts this 100% Riesling Auslese from selectively harvested, late-ripening grapes, often touched by noble rot (botrytis). Fermented with native yeasts, the wine beautifully balances luscious sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity, embodying the pinnacle of Mosel craftsmanship and history.
🍾 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