Germany

Wehlener Sonnenuhr

Light

Cork

White

A soaring Grosses Gewächse bottling, from Ernst Loosen’s exclusive La Place wine. This project is a revival of an old family winery by Dr Ernst Loosen, a tribute to the wines of his great-grandfather (on his mother’s side), who was a named producer in the Mosel in the early 1900s, and these wines are made with the same techniques of that era. Made with a basket press and barreled in fuder with no malolactic fermentation, it spends two years in barrel with full lees and no stirring before spending another four years in bottle. This wine glistens with classic Mosel minerality, and the blue slate soils from the Wehlener Sonnenuhr shine through. Smoky crushed flint, smoky grilled lemon and notes of candlewax alight the glass in the aromatics. The palate is edgy and lean, fresh-shaved ginger root and linear tones of citrus rind, smoky gunflint, and stone race along and finish upright and reductive.

Riesling

Weingut Zach. Bergweiler-Prüm Erben, Dr Loosen, Riesling Grosses Gewächs, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Mosel, Germany, 2019

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A soaring Grosses Gewächse bottling, from Ernst Loosen’s exclusive La Place wine. This project is a revival of an old family win

Weingut Zach. Bergweiler-Prüm Erben, Dr Loosen, Riesling Grosses Gewächs, Mosel, Germany 2019

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