Erdener Treppchen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2050
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich foie gras or savory duck pâté, and fruit-based desserts like peach galette or apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Treppchen vineyard, named for the stone staircases carved into its dizzyingly steep slopes to aid vineyard workers, is one of the Mosel's most legendary sites. Dr. Loosen's Erdener Treppchen Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel is a masterclass in the synergy of red Devonian slate and noble rot. Unlike the blue slate found elsewhere in the region, the iron-rich red slate of Erden imparts an intense, muscular minerality and an exotic, spicy character to the Riesling grapes. The Goldkapsel designation signifies an elite selection of exceptionally ripe, botrytized clusters, harvested by hand. Fermented slowly with indigenous yeasts, this wine balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with a piercing, vibrant acidity that keeps it remarkably fresh and elegant.
🍾 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.