Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese Nr9
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck liver pâté, and caramelized fruit tarts like Tarte Tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is legendary among Mosel vineyards, a tiny, south-facing amphitheater of red slate sheltered by towering cliffs that trap the sun's heat, creating an extraordinary microclimate. Historically associated with the clergy—hence the name 'Prälat' or prelate—this vineyard produces Riesling of unmatched intensity. Dr. Ernst Loosen crafts this Auslese from ancient, ungrafted vines, selecting botrytis-affected grapes that yield a luscious, concentrated nectar. The wine is fermented with native yeasts in traditional oak Fuder casks, balancing opulent tropical fruit and honeyed richness with the striking, fiery minerality characteristic of Erden's red slate.
🍾 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.