Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Nr17
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras or savory terrines, and fruit-based desserts like apricot tarts or peach galettes.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is legendary among Mosel vineyards, a tiny, south-facing amphitheater of red slate nestled beneath towering red cliffs that trap the sun's heat. Historically prized by the church—hence its name, 'The Prelate'—this exceptional terroir produces Riesling of unparalleled warmth and concentration. Dr. Loosen's Erdener Prälat Riesling Auslese is crafted from late-harvested, botrytis-affected grapes, fermented with native yeasts in traditional oak Fuder casks. The resulting wine is a masterpiece of tension, balancing opulent tropical fruit, honeyed richness, and wild yeast complexity with the striking, smoky minerality and vibrant acidity characteristic of its unique red slate soils.
🍾 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.