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
Founded in 1980 by Reinhard Löwenstein and Cornelia Heymann-Löwenstein, Weingut Heymann-Löwenstein is situated in Winningen within the dramatic, vertiginous Terrassenmosel region of Germany. Renowned as a pioneering visionary of terroir-driven, dry Mosel Riesling, the estate champions low-intervention cellar practices, ambient yeast fermentations, and meticulous organic viticulture across extreme slate terraces. Cultivating celebrated Grand Cru vineyards such as Winninger Röttgen and the intricately geologized Winninger Uhlen, the winery creates wines deeply reflective of their distinct slate soils. Their celebrated portfolio ranges from profound, mineral-rich Grosses Gewächs dry Rieslings to intensely layered, botrytized dessert wines of remarkable longevity.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
12% - 13%