Bernkasteler Badstube Riesling Eiswein
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pungent blue cheeses like Roquefort, fruit-based desserts such as apple tarts or pear galettes, and rich savory starters like duck liver pâté.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Ernst Loosen, this rare Eiswein is a testament to the extreme viticulture of Germany's Mosel region. The name 'Badstube' refers to the historic medieval bathhouses of Bernkastel. To produce this liquid gold, 100% Riesling grapes are left on the steep, Devonian slate slopes well into winter, risking rot and hungry wildlife. When temperatures finally plummet to at least -7 degrees Celsius, the frozen grapes are harvested in the freezing darkness of early morning. Pressing them while still frozen leaves the water behind as ice, yielding an incredibly concentrated, sweet nectar balanced by the Mosel's signature electric acidity and mineral precision.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Dr. Loosen stands as one of the preeminent global ambassadors of Germany's Mittelmosel. Under family ownership for more than two centuries, the estate experienced an epochal renaissance after Ernst 'Erni' Loosen assumed leadership in 1988. Loosen immediately implemented draconian yield restrictions, prohibited chemical fertilizers, and embraced spontaneous fermentations in neutral oak Fuder casks, frequently practicing extended lees contact. The domaine's strength rests in its holdings of ancient, ungrafted vines—many over a century old—clinging to perilous, south-facing slate amphitheaters. These steep slopes span blue Devonian slate in the Wehlener Sonnenuhr, red volcanic-slate colluvium in the Ürziger Würzgarten, and heat-retaining cliffs in the Erdener Prälat. Dr. Loosen is renowned both for crystalline, classically delicate Prädikat expressions defined by buoyant acidity and low alcohol, and for benchmark dry Grosses Gewächs bottlings that celebrate age-worthy, mineral-driven tension.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling