Winninger Uhlen Laubach Riesling GG
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Seared scallops, roasted pork belly, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Uhlen Laubach Riesling Grosses Gew$chs is a profound expression of the Terrassenmosel's dramatic geology. The 'Uhlen' vineyard is a legendary, amphitheater-like cliff of dizzying steepness, within which the 'Laubach' parcel represents a geological anomaly. Here, the Devonian slate is heavily layered with fossilized limestone from an ancient coral reef. This unique calcareous influence, combined with Heymann-L&wenstein's commitment to spontaneous fermentation in traditional large oak casks and extensive lees contact, yields a dry Riesling of immense structural power. It is a wine that trade-marks wild herb aromatics, a rich, almost creamy texture, and a deep, smoky, chalky minerality that reflects its prehistoric marine heritage.
🍾 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
12.5-13.5%