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
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