Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling GG
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2042
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared freshwater trout with lemon butter, roasted pork belly, and mildly spiced Southeast Asian curries.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from one of the Mosel's most iconic vineyards, the Wehlener Sonnenuhr (Sundial of Wehlen) Riesling GG (Grosses Gewächs) represents the pinnacle of dry German Riesling. The vineyard itself is legendary, named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide the daily rhythm of the vineyard workers. Dr. Loosen crafts this masterpiece from extremely steep, south-facing slopes composed of pure blue Devonian slate, home to ancient, ungrafted vines. This unique terroir imparts a striking, flinty minerality and an elegant, dancing acidity to the wine. In accordance with Grosses Gewächs traditions, the wine is fermented dry using indigenous yeasts in traditional, neutral Fuder oak casks and kept on its starter lees (sur lie) for 12 months. This patient, low-intervention process tempers the Riesling's natural tension with a rich, satiny texture, resulting in a complex white wine defined by white peach, citrus blossom, and a profound, stony depth.
🍾 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.