Erdener Treppchen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Nr27
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich blue cheeses such as Roquefort, classic foie gras or rich duck liver terrine, and fruit-based desserts like peach tart or apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Treppchen vineyard, meaning 'the little staircase of Erden', is named after the stone steps carved directly into the sheer, red slate cliffs of the Mosel valley to help vineyard workers navigate the dizzying slopes. Dr. Loosen's Erdener Treppchen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Nr27 represents the pinnacle of this site's unique terroir. Unlike the blue slate found elsewhere in the Mosel, the iron-rich red slate of Erden imparts an intense, muscular minerality, exotic spice, and rich stone fruit character to the Riesling grapes. The 'Goldkapsel' indicates a super-selective harvesting of botrytized grapes, resulting in a luscious, sweet nectar of extraordinary concentration. Fermented slowly with native yeasts in traditional oak Fuder casks, this rare bottling showcases the perfect harmony of opulent sweetness and vibrant, electric acidity.
🍾 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.