Erdener Pralat Riesling TBA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck liver pâté or foie gras, and artisanal apricot or peach tarts.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Prälat is one of the Mosel's most legendary vineyards, a tiny, south-facing amphitheater of red slate bordered by towering cliffs that trap heat and create an exceptional microclimate. Historically reserved for the high clergy (the 'prelates'), this site produces some of the most concentrated Rieslings in the world. Dr. Loosen's Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) from this site is an extraordinary nectar made only in exceptional vintages. It is crafted from individually hand-selected grapes shriveled by noble rot (Botrytis cinerea). The red slate soil imparts a unique, fiery minerality, exotic spice, and opulent stone fruit character, balanced by the vibrant, electric acidity characteristic of Mosel 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.
🍇 Grapes
100% Riesling