Winninger Uhlen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
blue cheese, foie gras, peach tart
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Uhlen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel is a monumental expression of the Terrassenmosel's extreme viticulture. Sourced from the legendary, amphitheater-like Uhlen vineyard—where ancient slate soils are divided into distinct geological sub-plots—this wine represents the pinnacle of noble sweet Riesling. The 'Goldkapsel' (gold capsule) designation denotes an Auslese of superior concentration, crafted from meticulously hand-selected, botrytis-affected grapes. In the cellar, Heymann-Löwenstein employs minimal intervention, allowing spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts to slowly unfold. This patient process yields a wine of breathtaking complexity, balancing luscious, honeyed sweetness with a vibrant, electric vein of slate-driven acidity and smoky minerality.
🍾 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
7-8.5%