Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spatlese Nr31
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, glazed roast pork, and strong blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Treppchen (staircase of Erden) vineyard is legendary in the Mosel valley, named for the stone steps carved directly into the near-vertical, iron-rich red slate cliffs. This dramatic terroir, farmed by the Dr. Loosen estate for generations, yields Riesling of extraordinary power, structure, and distinctive herbal spice. The Nr31 designation represents a specific, highly prized cask (Fuder) selection of late-harvested Spätlese grapes. Fermented with native yeasts in traditional large oak casks, this 100% Riesling beautifully balances luscious natural sweetness with a piercing, vibrant acidity that is the hallmark of the Mosel's cool-climate viticulture.
🍾 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