Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling BA Nr39
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, artisanal fruit tarts featuring apricots or peaches, and rich savory starters like foie gras or duck liver pâté.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Ernst Loosen, the Dr. Loosen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Beerenauslese (BA) is a monument to the steep, blue Devonian slate slopes of the Mosel Valley. The vineyard itself is named after the iconic sundial ('Sonnenuhr') erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide the daily rhythm of the vineyard workers. This luscious, sweet white wine is made from 100% Riesling grapes painstakingly harvested by hand, berry by berry, only when they have achieved the perfect concentration of noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). The combination of the cool Mosel climate, ancient ungrafted vines, and the heat-retaining slate soils yields a wine of breathtaking complexity, balancing rich honeyed sweetness, exotic stone fruit, and botrytis spice with a vibrant, laser-like acidity that keeps the wine remarkably fresh and light on its feet.
🍾 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.