Dr. Loosen Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2023 champagne-template Michel Ampeau (Robert's son) now

Michel Ampeau (Robert's son) now runs the domaine on this unhurried timeline

It makes a formidable Old Fashioned too

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Bottled at 107 proof

Dr. Loosen Riesling Wehlener Sonnenuhr Kabinett 2023 champagne-template Michel Ampeau (Robert's son) nowFrom one of the Mosel's most legendary vineyards: the Wehlener Sonnenuhr, a steep, south facing slope of blue Devonian slate named for the sundial ('Sonnenuhr') a 19th century grower built so his pickers could tell the time. Dr. Loosen owns old ungrafted vines here, some over a century old, farmed without irrigation and fermented with native yeast. At Kabinett ripeness, the wine is lightly sweet but so charged with slate driven acidity that it tastes