Erdener Treppchen Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, rich foie gras or savory pat , and fruit-based desserts like peach tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the vertigo-inducing, iron-rich red slate cliffs of the Mosel, Dr. Loosen's Erdener Treppchen Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese is a monument to extreme viticulture. The vineyard's name, meaning 'little staircase of Erden,' refers to the stone steps carved into the sheer hillside centuries ago to assist workers tending the vines. This rare, nectar-like wine is crafted only in exceptional vintages when noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) successfully dehydrates the Riesling grapes to a shriveled, highly concentrated state. Hand-harvested berry by berry, the resulting juice is fermented slowly, yielding an incredibly complex elixir. The unique red slate terroir imparts a distinctively spicy, muscular minerality that beautifully balances the wine's luscious, honeyed sweetness and vibrant, electric acidity.
🍾 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