Winninger Uhlen Riesling Roth Lay
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, creamy mushroom risotto, mature hard cheeses
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary, dizzyingly steep terraces of the Winninger Uhlen vineyard in the Terrassenmosel, the 'Roth Lay' parcel is a geological marvel. Named after its unique, iron-rich red slate ('rot' meaning red, and 'lay' being an ancient Celtic term for slate), this site yields a Riesling of extraordinary power and mineral intensity. The estate employs traditional, low-intervention methods, allowing the juice to ferment spontaneously with wild yeasts in large, neutral oak casks, followed by extended aging on the lees. This slow, natural process coaxes out a profound, multi-layered expression of the red slate terroir, characterized by smoky, spicy, and flinty nuances balanced by a dense, structured palate.
🍾 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%