Uhlen L Laubach
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Seared scallops, roasted pork, creamy mushroom dishes
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched on the dizzyingly steep, terraced cliffs of the Terrassenmosel, the legendary Uhlen vineyard is a geological mosaic. The 'Laubach' parcel is particularly renowned for its unique soil composition: a dark, calcareous slate infused with fossilized shells and limestone from an ancient Devonian coral reef. This distinct terroir imparts a singular, almost creamy texture and a profound saline minerality to the Riesling. Heymann-Löwenstein coaxes this character out through traditional, low-intervention methods, including spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts in large oak fuder and extended contact with the lees. The resulting wine is a powerful, highly structured dry Riesling that beautifully balances rich, exotic stone fruit aromas with a smoky, mineral-driven tension.
🍾 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