Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Nr33
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras or savory pâtés, and fruit-based desserts like apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is legendary among Mosel vineyards, a tiny, four-acre jewel blessed with an ideal south-facing exposure and dramatic red slate cliffs that trap the sun's warmth. This unique microclimate produces Riesling of unparalleled richness and complexity. Named after the church prelates who historically championed its wines, this vineyard yields grapes that achieve extraordinary ripeness. Dr. Loosen's Erdener Prälat Riesling Auslese Nr33 represents a meticulous selection of botrytized grapes, fermented traditionally to balance opulent sweetness with a vibrant, mineral-driven acidity. It stands as a monument to the steep-slope viticulture of the Middle Mosel.
🍾 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.