Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Nr37
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses like Roquefort or Stilton, rich foie gras or duck liver pâté, and fruit-based desserts such as apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat (Prelate of Erden) is legendary among Mosel vineyards, renowned as a tiny, south-facing amphitheater of weathered red slate. Spanning a mere four acres, this sun-drenched site is sheltered by towering cliffs that trap heat, creating a unique microclimate where Riesling grapes achieve extraordinary ripeness. Dr. Loosen’s Erdener Prälat Riesling Auslese is crafted from extremely old, ungrafted vines, capturing the intense concentration and noble botrytis characteristic of this grand terroir. Historically, the vineyard was named after the prelates of the nearby abbey who claimed its prized wines for their own tables. Fermented with native yeasts and matured in traditional oak Fuder casks, this Auslese is a masterclass in tension, balancing opulent sweetness, exotic stone fruit, and honeyed complexity with a striking, mineral-driven 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.