Riesling feinherb
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Vietnamese cuisine, classic roasted pork with apples, and mild vegetable curries.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Dr. Loosen estate has been in the same family for over 200 years, deeply rooted in the dramatic, slate-rich slopes of Germany's Mosel valley. This Riesling Feinherb represents the historic, traditional style of the region, where fermentations naturally slowed or stopped in the cool autumn cellars, leaving a delicate touch of residual sweetness. Crafted from 100% Riesling grown on steep, hand-harvested vineyards, the wine undergoes fermentation in a combination of stainless steel tanks and traditional large oak casks (Fuder). The blue slate soils of the Mosel impart a distinct, stony minerality, which beautifully balances the wine's vibrant, electric acidity and juicy stone fruit flavors, embodying the classic Mosel tension between sweetness and structure.
🍾 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.