Dr. Loosen - Zach. Bergweiler-Prüm Erben Wehlener Sonnenuhr Dry Riesling GG 2019
Standard - 75cl
ETA: 4-5 months
- Vintage2019
- ColourWhite
- ProducerZach Bergweiler Prum Erben
- CountryGermany
- RegionMosel
- DesignationQualitatswein
- Bottle SizeStandard - 75cl
- ABV13.5
- LWIN31179412019
- Avg. Critic Score4.5★★★★★★★★★★
Wine Critic Reviews
The 2019 Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Im Laychen Grosses Gewächs Réserve is from Loosen's oldest vines in the site that are well over 100 years old. It spent two years on lees in Fuder and four years in bottle. Dried hayflower and chamomile frame dried sultana and lemon peel aromas. All is lift on the nose, but the palate is balm. This has super smooth emollience, beautiful direction and bright acidity. Its exquisite, supple concentration still brims with chamomile and rings eternally on the finish. The elegance of the Sonnenuhr is clearly manifested here. (Bone-dry)
- Drinking Window: 2030 - 2065
- Reviewer Name: Anne Krebiehl MW
From a single fuder and aged for 24 months on the full lees, the 2019 Wehlener Sonnenuhr Riesling GG Vieilles Vignes offers a generous, very intense and lemony bouquet of concentrated Riesling berries. Very elegant and fresh on the palate, this is a full-bodied, textural and vivacious, tight and mineral, firmly structured Sonnenuhr with a long, complex, saline, very stimulating finish. It is incredibly young and full of expression. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in October 2025.
- Drinking Window: 2025 - 2055
- Reviewer Name: Stephan Reinhardt
This has crazy, flinty minerality and terrific herbal freshness. The white peach aromas and touch of oak of this site slowly emerge as it aerates. Totally focused and energetic, this is only just beginning to show what it’s made of. Drink from release.
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.
- Drinking Window: 2025 - 2034
- Reviewer Name: Clive Pursehouse