Uhlen Blaufusser Lay
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout, roasted pork belly, mature goat cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
The Uhlen vineyard in Winningen is one of the most spectacular and steepest sites in the Terrassenmosel, renowned for its dramatic terraced cliffs. Within this grand site, the 'Blaufüsser Lay' parcel is distinguished by its unique blue Devonian slate soils, which lend a cool, intensely mineral, and almost salty character to the wine. Heymann-Löwenstein crafts this single-vineyard Riesling using traditional, low-intervention methods, including spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts and extended aging on the lees in large oak casks. This slow, natural process coaxes out a multi-layered complexity, combining smoky flintiness, ripe stone fruit, and a vibrant, structural acidity that reflects the extreme terroir of the Mosel.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Heymann-Löwenstein was founded in 1980 by Reinhard Löwenstein and Cornelia Heymann-Löwenstein in Winningen, revitalizing centuries of familial viticultural heritage in the Terrassenmosel. Championing the dramatic, steeply terraced slopes along the lower Mosel, the estate tends approximately 14 hectares of dry-stone wall vineyards tilted up to 80 percent gradients. The viticultural terroir centers on heterogeneous Devonian slate formations, distinguished into blue-gray slate, iron-rich red slate, and fossil-infused calcareous slate. Winemaking adheres to an uncompromising, artisanal ethos: hand-harvested grapes undergo native-yeast fermentation in traditional wooden Fuder casks without additions, followed by long contact with fine lees and late bottling up to 24 months post-harvest. Member of the VDP since 1997, the estate excels in dense, bone-dry, age-worthy Grosses Gewächs bottlings from benchmark crus like Winninger Uhlen—divided into Roth Lay, Laubach, and Blaufüsser Lay—as well as Röttgen, Kirchberg, and the harmonious regional cuvée Schieferterrassen.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12% - 13%