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
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
🍷 ABV
7-9%