Riesling Extra Dry
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Asian cuisine, fresh fruit tarts, or salty appetizers like cured meats and mild cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the dramatic, slate-strewn slopes of Germany's Mosel valley, the Dr. Loosen Riesling Extra Dry is a vibrant sparkling wine (Sekt) that showcases the estate's centuries-old winemaking heritage. Ernst Loosen, who took over his family's estate in 1988, has long championed the unique terroir of the Mosel, where steep vineyards and cool climates yield Riesling of unmatched tension and purity. This sparkling cuvée is crafted to preserve the grape's naturally high acidity and intense aromatic profile. By utilizing a careful secondary fermentation, the wine achieves a delicate, persistent effervescence. The 'Extra Dry' designation strikes a harmonious balance, offering a touch of residual sweetness that perfectly counters the bracing slate minerality and bright citrus notes characteristic of Mosel Riesling.
🍾 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.