Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras, or fruit-based desserts like apricot tarts and peach galettes.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Ernst Loosen, this rare nectar originates from the iconic Wehlener Sonnenuhr (the 'Sundial of Wehlen') vineyard in the Mosel valley. The steep, south-facing slope of pure blue Devonian slate yields Riesling of unmatched elegance. The vineyard is named after the historic sundial erected in 1842 by Jodocus Prüm. To produce this Trockenbeerenauslese, individual berries shriveled by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) are meticulously hand-harvested late in the autumn. The resulting wine is an incredibly concentrated, viscous elixir where intense honeyed sweetness is balanced by the Mosel's trademark electric acidity, offering complex notes of dried apricot, saffron, and wild honey.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling