Erdener Treppchen Riesling GG Alte Reben
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pork loin with herbs, pan-seared sea scallops in a rich butter sauce, and classic Alsatian choucroute garnie.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Treppchen, or 'little staircase of Erden,' takes its name from the stone steps carved directly into the towering, near-vertical red slate cliffs of the Mosel Valley, built to help vineyard workers navigate the treacherous slopes. Dr. Loosen's Grosses Gewächs (GG) 'Alte Reben' is sourced from ancient, ungrafted Riesling vines—many over a century old—whose roots dig deep into this iron-rich red slate soil. This unique terroir imparts an intense, fiery minerality and exotic stone fruit character to the wine. Championing traditional Mosel winemaking, Ernst Loosen ferments the juice with indigenous yeasts in historic, neutral oak Fuder casks, allowing the wine to rest on its lees to develop a rich, textured, and profoundly complex dry style.
🍾 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