Riesling Rotschiefer Trocken
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Excellent alongside spicy Asian dishes, roasted pork loin, or fresh shellfish like oysters and crab.
✨ Technical Specifications
Dr. Loosen's Rotschiefer Trocken is a brilliant testament to the unique terroir of Germany's Mosel valley, specifically celebrating the rare red slate ('Rotschiefer') soils found in select iron-rich vineyards. While blue slate dominates much of the region, the red slate imparts a distinctively warm, spicy minerality and rich stone-fruit character to the 100% Riesling grape. Ernst Loosen, who took over his family's historic estate in 1988, has championed these soil-specific bottlings to express the pure, unadorned voice of the land. Vinified dry ('trocken') using traditional practices, this wine undergoes a cool fermentation in stainless steel to preserve its vibrant, electric acidity and pristine fruit profile, resulting in a beautifully structured white wine that balances intense minerality with juicy citrus and peach notes.
🍾 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.