Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Reserve GG Alte Reben
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted pork belly, or classic roasted duck.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Wehlener Sonnenuhr, or 'Sundial of Wehlen,' is one of the Mosel's most legendary vineyards, named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Pruem to guide vineyard workers. Dr. Loosen's Reserve Grosses Gewaechs (GG) Alte Reben represents the pinnacle of dry Riesling from this iconic site. Sourced from ungrafted, centenarian vines rooted deeply in pure blue Devonian slate, this wine undergoes a traditional vinification process. It is fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged on its full lees for 24 months in traditional 1,000-liter oak Fuder casks, followed by extensive bottle aging. This extended maturation tames the Mosel's fierce acidity, resulting in a dry Riesling of extraordinary depth, characterized by white peach, white flowers, intense flinty minerality, and a rich, texturally complex palate.
🍾 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.