Erdener Pralat Riesling GG Alte Reben
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops with ginger, roasted pork belly with crackling, and moderately spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is widely regarded as one of the greatest vineyards in the Mosel valley, a tiny, sun-drenched site blessed with an ideal south-southwest exposure and surrounded by towering, heat-retaining red slate cliffs. Dr. Loosen's 'GG Alte Reben' (Grosses Gewächs Old Vines) is sourced from ungrafted Riesling vines that are over a century old. This exceptional terroir, combined with the ancient rootstocks, yields a dry Riesling of unparalleled concentration and complexity. Historically, this prized parcel was associated with the church, hence the name 'Prälat' (Prelate). Ernst Loosen crafts this masterpiece using traditional winemaking techniques, including spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in large, neutral oak Fuder casks, followed by extended maturation on the lees. The result is a powerful, dry white wine defined by rich stone fruit aromas, exotic spices, and a profound, fiery red-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.