Winninger Uhlen Roth Lay Riesling Reserve
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted duck, creamy mushroom risotto, seared scallops
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Uhlen Roth Lay Riesling Reserve represents the pinnacle of Heymann-Löwenstein's terroir-driven philosophy. The Uhlen vineyard is a spectacular, amphitheater-like cliff in the Lower Mosel, divided into distinct geological sub-parcels. Among these, 'Roth Lay' is legendary for its intensely red, iron-rich slate soil, which imparts a unique, smoky minerality and deep structure to the wine. The 'Reserve' designation indicates an extraordinary winemaking process: while the standard GG is bottled after a year, the Reserve undergoes extended aging on its fine lees in traditional large oak Fuder casks, often for two to three years or more. This prolonged contact with the yeast softens the Mosel's searing acidity, adding a rich, creamy texture, profound depth, and complex savory notes of petrol, dried stone fruits, and crushed flint. It is a monument to the extreme viticulture of the Terrassenmosel, where vines cling to near-vertical slate walls that have been cultivated since Roman times.
🍾 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% - 13.5%