Naked Grape Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Vietnamese cuisine, fresh sushi and sashimi, and light poultry dishes.
✨ Technical Specifications
Ernst Loosen is a global ambassador for German Riesling, dedicated to showcasing the true, unadorned character of the Mosel's steep, slate-soiled vineyards. The Naked Grape Riesling is a testament to this philosophy, crafted to express the grape's natural, vibrant personality without any oak influence. Grown in the cool-climate Mosel valley, where viticulture dates back to Roman times, the vines dig deep into ancient slate soils. This wine is fermented in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks to preserve its bright acidity, pristine stone fruit flavors, and distinct stony minerality, offering a pure and naked reflection of its historic terroir.
🍾 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