Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spatlese
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, roasted pork belly with apple compote, and strong, salty cheeses like Roquefort or aged Gouda.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Erdener Treppchen, or 'little staircase of Erden,' is one of the Mosel's most legendary vineyards, named for the stone steps carved directly into the sheer cliffside to help workers navigate its dizzying slopes. Under the stewardship of Ernst Loosen, this site produces a benchmark Riesling Spätlese. The vineyard's unique, iron-rich red slate soil imparts a distinctively muscular, spicy minerality to the wine, contrasting with the blue slate found elsewhere in the region. Crafted from 100% Riesling, this late-harvest wine is fermented cool in traditional oak Fuder casks and stainless steel. It beautifully balances luscious natural sweetness with the Mosel's trademark electric acidity, offering vibrant notes of white peach, apricot, and a lingering, stony finish.
🍾 About the Producer
The historic Dr. Loosen estate has been in the Loosen family for over two centuries, situated along the dramatic, slate-lined slopes of the Middle Mosel in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany. Since taking over management in 1988, Ernst Loosen has revitalized the winery by strictly focusing on low yields, meticulous vineyard stewardship, and minimal intervention in the cellar. The estate is blessed with extraordinarily old, ungrafted Riesling vines in legendary Grand Cru (Grosse Lage) vineyards such as Erdener Prälat, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, and Bernkasteler Lay. Dr. Loosen is globally celebrated for producing pure, expressive, and age-worthy Rieslings that range from vibrant dry bottlings to lusciously complex, mineral-laced Prädikat and dessert wines.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling