LOWENSTEIN

 

Kirchberg
Taste: mix of hints of sea minerals and herbs
Size: 1.73 acres
Parcel: Hohenrhein
Terroir: reddish, sandy-quartzite, iron
Age of vines: 25 yrs
Exposure: S
Incline: 100 degrees
Vinification: natural yeast, 10 months, steel and wood
Alc. 12.5%                                                  

 Schieferterrassen
Taste:  mature fruit plays the coquette with subtle slate
Size:  11.12 acres

Parcel:  mix
Terroir:  all variations

Age of vines: 40 yrs

Exposure: SE-SW
Incline:100-110 degrees

Vinification: natural yeast, 10 months, steel and wood
Alc. 12.5%

 von blauem Schiefer
Taste: cool mountain stream
Size: 3.71 acres
Parcel: end of the Laubach
Terroir: oxidated blue iron
Age if vines: 35 yrs
Exposure: S
Incline: 100-110 degrees
Vinification: natural yeast, 10 months, steel and wood
Alc. 12.5% 

Rottgen
Taste: evokes calm and warm earth qualities
Size: 7.16 acres
Parcel: Rittersturz
Terroir: yellow-brown oxidizes to blue-black
Age of vines: 55 yrs
Exposure: S, SE
Incline: 100-125 degrees
Vinification: natural yeast, 10 months, steel and wood
Alc. 12.5%


Acidity : 6,2g

 

Uhlen Blaufusser Lay
Taste: a fresh breeze of acidity
Size: 1.98 acres
Parcel: end of the Laubach
Terroir: blue-grey, silt, clay
Age of vines: 55 yrs
Exposure: SW
Incline: 100-115 degrees
Vinification: natural yeast, 10 months, steel and wood
Alc. 12.5% 
 

Uhlen Laubach
Taste: clouds of cool, nutty smoke arise from velvet seabed
Size: 4.20 acres
Parcel: Laubach
Terroir: silt, sandy, grey with a high proportion of lime (from fossils)
Age of vines: 50 yrs
Exposure: S, SW
Incline: 100-115 degrees
Vinification: natural yeast, 10 months, steel and wood
Alc. 12.5%
 

Uhlen Roth-Lay
Taste: a boat-load of ore sailing through seas of fruit
Size: 3.95 acres
Parcel: Emsquarzit and Hobquarhoin
Terroir: grey to dark red (hamatit silt, sandy, partly quartzite)
Age of vines: 50 yrs
Exposure: S
Incline: 100-115 degrees
Vinification: natural yeast, 10 months, steel and wood
Alc. 12.5%