Riesling BA
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2060
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, peach tart, and foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Dr. Loosen's Riesling Beerenauslese (BA) is a testament to the painstaking artistry of traditional Mosel winemaking. This luscious dessert wine is crafted only in vintages where autumn mists along the winding Mosel River encourage the development of Botrytis cinerea, or 'noble rot.' This beneficial fungus concentrates the sugars, acids, and flavors within the Riesling grapes. Harvested entirely by hand, vineyard workers meticulously select individual shriveled berries from the estate's steep, slate-rich slopes. The slate soils act as a heat reservoir, helping the grapes achieve optimal ripeness in this cool climate. The resulting wine is a brilliant golden nectar that beautifully balances intense sweetness with the Mosel's signature vibrant, electric acidity, offering complex notes of honeyed peach, dried apricot, and a distinct slate minerality.
🍾 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