Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck liver pâté, and fruit-based desserts like a traditional peach or apricot tart.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is legendary among Mosel vineyards, a tiny, four-acre jewel blessed with an ideal microclimate. Nestled beneath towering red slate cliffs that absorb and radiate heat, this south-facing amphitheater acts as a natural solar collector, allowing the Riesling grapes to reach extraordinary levels of ripeness. Historically favored by high-ranking church prelates—hence the name 'Prälat'—this vineyard produces wines of unmatched intensity and complexity. Ernst Loosen crafts this Auslese Goldkapsel from meticulously selected, botrytis-affected grapes. Fermented with native yeasts in traditional oak Fuder casks, it showcases the striking tension between luscious, honeyed sweetness and the vibrant, electric acidity characteristic of the Mosel's red slate terroir.
🍾 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.