Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Nr50
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich blue cheeses such as Roquefort, classic foie gras or rich duck liver pâté, and fruit-based desserts like peach tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is legendary among Mosel vineyards, a tiny, sun-drenched amphitheater of red slate that sits directly above the river, capturing maximum heat and light. Named after the church prelates who historically claimed this prized parcel, it yields Riesling of unparalleled intensity. Dr. Loosen's Auslese Goldkapsel is crafted only in exceptional vintages from highly botrytized grapes, meticulously selected by hand. The red slate soil imparts a unique, fiery minerality and exotic spice to the wine, which is fermented with indigenous yeasts in traditional oak Fuder casks. This creates a luxurious, nectar-like white wine where opulent sweetness is perfectly counterbalanced by a laser-like, vibrant acidity.
🍾 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.