Winninger Uhlen Rothlay Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, fruit-based desserts
✨ Technical Specifications
Perched on the dizzyingly steep, terraced cliffs of the Lower Mosel, the Uhlen vineyard is a geological marvel. Within this grand site lies 'Rothlay', a prized parcel defined by its unique, iron-rich red slate soils. This striking terroir imparts a distinctively smoky, fiery minerality to the Riesling vines that cling to its sheer rock faces. The Winninger Uhlen Rothlay Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel represents the absolute pinnacle of selection at the estate. Crafted only in favorable years from meticulously hand-harvested, botrytis-affected grapes, this noble sweet wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in traditional large oak casks. The result is a legendary elixir that beautifully balances decadent sweetness, electric acidity, and the profound, stony imprint of the Rothlay terraced slopes.
🍾 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%