Winninger Uhlen Rothlay Riesling GG Nr2
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pork belly, seared scallops with ginger, spiced duck breast
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Roth Lay' is the crown jewel of the legendary Uhlen vineyard in Winningen, characterized by its striking, iron-rich red slate soils dating back some 400 million years. This steep, terraced amphitheater traps heat, creating a unique microclimate where Riesling vines must dig deep into the fractured rock. Heymann-Löwenstein's Winninger Uhlen Rothlay Riesling Grosses Gewächs is a monument to this dramatic terroir. Crafted with minimal intervention, the wine undergoes spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts and rests on its lees in traditional large oak casks. This slow, natural process coaxes out an incredibly complex, wild, and smoky mineral profile, marked by flint, herbal reduction, and intense stone fruit, representing the pinnacle of the Terrassenmosel's slate-driven winemaking heritage.
🍾 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%