Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett Tradition
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2029
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Vietnamese cuisine, classic roast pork with apple sauce, and fresh sushi or sashimi.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from one of the Mosel Valley's most legendary vineyards, the Wehlener Sonnenuhr (Sundial of Wehlen), this Riesling Kabinett is a masterclass in tension and elegance. The vineyard takes its name from the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide the daily rhythms of the vineyard workers. Planted on precipitously steep, pure blue Devonian slate slopes, the ungrafted, ancient vines yield a wine of remarkable mineral intensity. Under the stewardship of Ernst Loosen, this 'Tradition' bottling is crafted using traditional practices, including fermentation with indigenous yeasts in large, neutral oak casks (Fuder). The result is a classic Mosel Kabinett: feather-light in body, naturally low in alcohol, and vibrating with an electric current of crisp acidity that perfectly balances its delicate, off-dry stone fruit sweetness.
🍾 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.