Winninger Uhlen Laubach Riesling Auslese Lange Goldkapsel Auktion Erste Lage
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, fruit-based desserts
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Uhlen Laubach Riesling Auslese Lange Goldkapsel Auktion is a legendary sweet wine of monumental complexity, originating from the steep, terraced cliffs of the lower Mosel. The Laubach parcel of the Uhlen vineyard is geologically unique, featuring layers of grey slate interspersed with fossilized prehistoric coral reef and limestone, which imparts a distinct creamy texture and intense saline minerality to the wine. This rare Lange Goldkapsel (Long Gold Capsule) bottling represents an elite selection of botrytised grapes, crafted only in exceptional vintages and sold exclusively through the prestigious annual VDP Mosel wine auction in Trier. Heymann-Löwenstein employs traditional, low-intervention methods, including spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts, allowing this noble sweet Riesling to express the absolute pinnacle of its dramatic terroir.
🍾 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