Winninger Uhlen Laubach Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit-based desserts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched on the dizzyingly steep, terraced cliffs of the Lower Mosel, the Uhlen vineyard is a geological marvel, and its Laubach parcel is perhaps the most intriguing. Here, ancient history meets viticulture: the soil is defined by a layer of fossilized Devonian coral reef, blending limestone with dark, weathered slate. This unique terroir imparts a distinct, almost saline minerality and a velvety texture to the Riesling. The Winninger Uhlen Laubach Riesling Auslese is a testament to extreme patience and meticulous craftsmanship. Hand-harvested grape by grape to select only the finest botrytis-affected fruit, this noble sweet wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with wild yeasts in traditional large oak casks. The result is a wine of breathtaking complexity, balancing rich, exotic fruit sweetness with a vibrant, mineral-driven acidity that reflects the dramatic, sun-drenched amphitheater of the Uhlen.
🍾 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)
7-9%