Winninger Uhlen Rothlay Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, apple tarte tatin
✨ Technical Specifications
The Winninger Uhlen Rothlay Riesling Auslese is a masterpiece born from one of the Mosel's most dramatic and legendary vineyard sites. The Uhlen vineyard is a sheer, amphitheater-like cliff of terraced slate, with the 'Rothlay' parcel distinguished by its striking, iron-rich red slate soils. According to local lore, these steep terraces have been cultivated since Roman times, requiring heroic manual labor to maintain. Heymann-Löwenstein harnesses this extreme terroir to produce an Auslese of extraordinary depth. Made from meticulously hand-selected, botrytis-affected grapes, the wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in traditional large oak casks. This low-intervention approach preserves the intense, smoky minerality of the red slate, balancing the luscious, honeyed sweetness of the noble rot with a vibrant, electric vein of acidity that defines great Mosel Riesling.
🍾 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