Erdener Pralat Riesling Reserve GG Alte Reben
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck with a plum glaze, pan-seared veal chops with wild mushrooms, or aged hard cheeses like Comté.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is one of the Mosel's most legendary vineyards, a tiny, sun-drenched amphitheater of red slate protected by towering cliffs. Legend has it that the vineyard was named after the church prelates who historically claimed its exceptional wines for themselves. Dr. Loosen's 'Reserve' GG (Grosses Gewächs) Alte Reben is crafted from ancient, ungrafted Riesling vines that are over a century old. This dry masterpiece undergoes a traditional, minimalist winemaking process, aging on its full lees for an extraordinary 24 months in neutral oak Fuder casks, followed by extensive bottle aging. This extended contact with the lees imparts a profound textural richness and creamy complexity, beautifully balancing the intense, fiery minerality of the red slate and the vibrant, noble acidity of the old-vine Riesling.
🍾 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.