Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Nr46
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich savory dishes like seared foie gras, or fruit-based desserts like apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from one of the Mosel's most legendary grand cru sites, the Erdener Pr$lat Riesling Auslese from Dr. Loosen is a masterclass in tension, power, and elegance. The tiny, four-acre Erdener Pr$lat vineyard is a geological marvel: a south-facing amphitheater of weathered red slate, completely surrounded by massive, heat-retaining cliffs. This unique microclimate yields exceptionally ripe, botrytis-affected Riesling grapes. Historically, this site was so revered that the prelates (abbots) of the local monastery claimed its entire production for their exclusive use. Dr. Loosen's Auslese 'Nr46' represents a highly selective harvest of these golden, noble-rot-kissed grapes, fermented with indigenous yeasts in traditional Fuder oak casks. The resulting wine is an opulent, honeyed nectar balanced by a searing, electric beam of Mosel acidity, offering complex notes of dried apricots, saffron, and intense slate 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.