Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Trocken GG
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2038
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared freshwater trout, roasted pork loin with orchard fruits, or classic Wiener Schnitzel.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Ernst Loosen, whose family has farmed the steep slopes of the Mosel for over two centuries, the Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Trocken GG represents the pinnacle of dry German Riesling. The vineyard's name translates to 'Kingdom of Heaven,' a fitting moniker for a site blessed with deep, water-retaining blue Devonian slate soils. This unique terroir imparts a distinctive, smoky minerality and a vibrant, citrus-driven acidity to the wine. As a Grosses Gewächs (Grand Cru equivalent), this dry masterpiece is sourced from old, ungrafted vines, fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in traditional 1,000-liter neutral oak Fuder casks, and aged on its fine lees to achieve a perfect harmony of rich texture and razor-sharp precision.
🍾 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.