Riesling Beerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses, fruit-based desserts like apricot tarts, and rich savory dishes such as foie gras or duck liver pâté.
✨ Technical Specifications
Ernst Loosen has long been a visionary champion of the Mosel's steep, slate-soiled vineyards, where vines have clung to the cliffs since Roman times. This Beerenauslese is a testament to that extreme viticulture. Crafted entirely from 100% Riesling, it relies on the magical intervention of Botrytis cinerea (noble rot), which shrivels the grapes on the vine, concentrating their natural sugars and vibrant acidity. Hand-harvested berry by berry in the cool autumn air, the wine undergoes a slow fermentation to preserve its intense aromatic profile. The resulting nectar beautifully expresses the slate-driven minerality of the Mosel, balanced by a luscious, honeyed complexity that has made Dr. Loosen a global benchmark for sweet German wines.
🍾 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