Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling BA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, artisanal fruit tarts (especially peach or apricot), and rich savory terrines or foie gras.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the visionary Ernst Loosen, this Beerenauslese (BA) originates from the legendary Wehlener Sonnenuhr—the 'Sundial of Wehlen'—a precipitously steep vineyard named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm. Composed of 100% Riesling grown on pure blue Devonian slate soils, this luscious sweet wine is made only in exceptional vintages. It requires painstaking hand-selection of individual berries shriveled by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). The combination of the Mosel's cool climate, ancient ungrafted vines, and meticulous cellar work yields a wine of astonishing concentration, balancing intense honeyed sweetness with a vibrant, electric vein 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.