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
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