Erdener Pralat Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses, rich fruit tarts, and moderately spicy Asian cuisine.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is one of the Mosel's most legendary vineyards, a tiny, south-facing amphitheater of red slate that acts as a natural heat trap. This extreme microclimate allows the 100% Riesling grapes to achieve extraordinary ripeness. Historically named after the church prelates who claimed its prized wines for themselves, this vineyard yields an Auslese of unparalleled intensity. Dr. Loosen crafts this wine using traditional methods, fermenting with native yeasts in large, neutral oak casks (Fuder) to preserve the vineyard's distinct spicy, iron-rich mineral character and lush exotic fruit profile, balanced by the vibrant, life-giving acidity characteristic of the 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.