Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Kabinett
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian dishes such as Thai green curry, classic roasted pork with orchard fruit compote, and fresh sushi or sashimi.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wehlener Sonnenuhr, or 'Sundial of Wehlen,' is one of the Mosel's most iconic grand cru vineyards, famed for its dizzyingly steep slopes of pure blue Devonian slate. This unique soil imparts a signature flinty minerality and dancing acidity to the 100% Riesling grapes grown here. The vineyard's name derives from the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide the daily rhythms of the vineyard workers. Under the stewardship of Ernst Loosen, whose family has cultivated vines in the region for over two centuries, this Kabinett is crafted in a traditional, off-dry style. Fermented with native yeasts in a combination of stainless steel and traditional oak Fuder casks, it captures the delicate, low-alcohol harmony of vibrant peach, citrus, and green apple fruit balanced by an electric, slate-driven tension.
🍾 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.