Erdener Treppchen Riesling Kabinett
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Vietnamese dishes, classic roasted pork belly with a sweet glaze, and fresh shellfish or sushi.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Treppchen, or 'little staircase of Erden,' is one of the Mosel's most dramatic grand cru vineyards, named for the stone steps built directly into the towering, near-vertical red slate cliffs to help workers tend the vines. Under the stewardship of Ernst Loosen, this historic site yields a classic Kabinett of extraordinary tension and energy. Crafted from 100% Riesling, this wine benefits from the unique heat-retaining properties of the iron-rich red slate, which imparts a distinctively spicy, mineral-driven character. Fermented in cool stainless steel tanks to preserve its pristine fruit, the wine captures the traditional Mosel style: low in alcohol, naturally off-dry, and balanced by a razor-sharp, electric acidity that makes it dance on the palate.
🍾 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