Dr Loosen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spatlese 2022

Dr Loosen Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling Spätlese, Mosel, Germany, 2022   

Grape: 100% Riesling, hand harvested from 60 year old vines, effectively unoaked, 64g/l residual sugar

This sweet white wine has a beautiful mix of honeycomb, pineapple and hints of complex tropical fruit.

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"Brimming with stone fruits with delicate floral honey and caramelized pear aromas. Ripe and generous, but with a lively acidity that keeps this moving briskly over the palate. Long finish in which creamy and crisp elements are beautifully balanced."

94/100 points, Stuart Pigott, JamesSuckling.com, September 2023

"Elegant and full of ripe apple, pear and peach flavors in an attractive, easy-going way. It is balanced, with enough complexity to keep it interesting, yet not too intellectual."

"This concentrated Spätlese hits the confluence of citrus pulp, tarragon and the kind of vibrant acidity that will set your tongue in motion. This is a wine for the cellar, or, if you are impatient, there’s plenty here to reward your opening the bottle now".

95/100 points (Best Buy), Jonathan Eichholz, Wine & Spirits Magazine, March 2024

"The bouquet is pure, precise and vivid, wafting from the glass in a mix of pear, white cherries, vanilla bean, a touch of kiwi, a beautifully complex base of blue slate and a lovely floral top note of both apple and citrus blossoms. On the palate the wine is bright, fullish and seamlessly balanced, with a beautiful core of fruit, fine slate undertow, zesty acids and a long, nascently complex and very refined finish."

93+/100 points, John Gilman, View from the Cellar, August 2024

This extremely steep vineyard produces the most elegant and delicate white wines in the world. The stony, shallow blue slate soil gives the wine a delicate, fresh acidity as well as a unique finesse. The wines of Wehlener Sonnenuhr are exceptionally charming in their youth, with a beguiling scent of white peach and green apple. Yet they will also age well for many decades.

The famous “sundial” vineyard produces the quintessential Mosel Riesling: delicate and refined, with racy minerality and endless charm. Spätlese is German for “late picked.” It has more richness and body than Kabinett because the grapes are allowed to ripen for an extra week or more. The extra hang time on the vine allows for greater development of flavour and aroma.