Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Lange Goldkapsel Auktion
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pungent blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck liver pâté, and classic fruit tarts featuring peaches or apricots.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Ernst Loosen, the Erdener Prälat Riesling Auslese Lange Goldkapsel Auktion represents the absolute zenith of Mosel winemaking. The Erdener Prälat vineyard is a tiny, south-facing amphitheater of weathered red slate, flanked by towering cliffs that trap heat, creating an exceptionally warm microclimate. Named after the church prelates who historically claimed this prized site for their own cellars, it produces Riesling of unparalleled intensity. The 'Lange Goldkapsel' (Long Gold Cap) designation indicates an extraordinary selection of botrytized grapes, and the 'Auktion' bottling is reserved exclusively for the prestigious annual VDP wine auctions. Fermented with native yeasts and aged in traditional Fuder casks, this rare elixir balances luscious sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity and a deep, smoky minerality.
🍾 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.