Winninger Uhlen Riesling TBA Roth Lay
⏳ Drinking Window
2030 - 2080
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, fruit-based desserts like peach tarte tatin
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched on the vertigo-inducing terraces of the Winninger Uhlen, the 'Roth Lay' parcel is a geological marvel. The name 'Uhlen' is whispered to originate from the owls (Eulen) that nest in the warm, craggy slate cliffs. Here, the 'Roth Lay' sub-site is defined by its striking red slate soils rich in iron oxide, which absorb the intense Mosel sun and radiate heat back to the vines. This ultra-rare Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) is only produced in exceptional vintages when the autumn mists of the Mosel river foster the perfect development of noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). Every single shriveled, raisin-like berry is painstakingly hand-selected by experienced harvesters crawling the steep terraces. The resulting nectar undergoes an incredibly slow, spontaneous fermentation, yielding a wine of monumental concentration, where luscious honeyed sweetness is perfectly balanced by a vibrant, electric spine of acidity and a deep, smoky, iron-driven 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