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
Founded in 1980 by Reinhard Löwenstein and Cornelia Heymann-Löwenstein, Weingut Heymann-Löwenstein is situated in Winningen within the dramatic, vertiginous Terrassenmosel region of Germany. Renowned as a pioneering visionary of terroir-driven, dry Mosel Riesling, the estate champions low-intervention cellar practices, ambient yeast fermentations, and meticulous organic viticulture across extreme slate terraces. Cultivating celebrated Grand Cru vineyards such as Winninger Röttgen and the intricately geologized Winninger Uhlen, the winery creates wines deeply reflective of their distinct slate soils. Their celebrated portfolio ranges from profound, mineral-rich Grosses Gewächs dry Rieslings to intensely layered, botrytized dessert wines of remarkable longevity.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
7-8.5%