Winninger Uhlen Laubach Riesling TBA
⏳ Drinking Window
2030 - 2080
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, peach tarte tatin
✨ Technical Specifications
The Uhlen vineyard in Winningen is one of the Mosel's most dramatic and steep sites, where vines cling to terraces carved into the sheer rock face. Within this legendary site lies the 'Laubach' parcel, famous for its unique geological composition: a layer of grey slate infused with fossilized limestone from an ancient Devonian coral reef. This rare limestone influence imparts a distinct, chalky elegance and structural breadth to the Riesling. In exceptional years, when autumn mists from the Mosel river encourage the development of noble rot, the estate crafts their rare Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA). The grapes are painstakingly harvested by hand, berry by shriveled berry, selecting only those fully concentrated by botrytis. Fermented slowly with wild yeasts, this liquid gold balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with the electric, vibrating acidity characteristic of the Terrassenmosel.
🍾 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