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
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