DR. LO Alcohol-Free Sparkling Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian dishes such as Thai or Vietnamese cuisine, fresh sushi and sashimi, and light summer salads with goat cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the steep, slate-rich slopes of Germany's Mosel valley, Dr. Loosen's DR. LO Alcohol-Free Sparkling Riesling represents a brilliant marriage of historic winemaking heritage and modern innovation. Ernst Loosen, a champion of the region's traditional Riesling, crafted this expression to meet the demand for high-quality, non-alcoholic options without sacrificing the Mosel's signature terroir. Made from 100% Riesling grapes, the wine undergoes a gentle vacuum distillation process to remove the alcohol while preserving the delicate aromas of white peach, citrus, and the distinct mineral tension derived from the region's blue slate soils. The result is a refreshing, effervescent sparkling wine that captures the true essence of Mosel Riesling.
🍾 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.