Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Reserve GG
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pork belly, pan-seared sea bass with lemon-butter sauce, or classic Wiener Schnitzel.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Dr. Loosen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Reserve GG is a monument to the steep, blue Devonian slate slopes of the Mosel. The Sonnenuhr (sundial) vineyard, named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm to guide vineyard workers, yields 100% Riesling of extraordinary purity. For the Reserve bottling, Ernst Loosen revives traditional Mosel cellar practices, aging the dry wine on its full yeast lees in traditional 1,000-liter oak Fuder casks for a minimum of 24 months, followed by several years of bottle aging before release. This extended maturation imparts a creamy texture, complex structural depth, and a profound integration of the classic Mosel slate minerality and stone fruit characters, resulting in a dry, powerful, yet exquisitely balanced white wine.
🍾 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.