Riesling Trocken
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pairs wonderfully with fresh seafood and shellfish, spicy Asian cuisine such as Thai or Vietnamese dishes, and classic roasted pork.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Dr. Loosen estate, managed by the charismatic Ernst Loosen since 1988, boasts a winemaking heritage in the Mosel valley spanning over two centuries. This Riesling Trocken is a classic representation of the region's dry style, sourced from steep, slate-soil vineyards along the winding Mosel River. These dramatic slopes, famously difficult to farm, force the vines to dig deep into the stony earth, imparting a signature mineral intensity to the wine. Fermented in stainless steel to preserve its pristine fruit character, this 100% Riesling beautifully balances the Mosel's naturally high, electric acidity with delicate notes of white peach, green apple, and citrus, offering a crisp and refreshing expression of cool-climate viticulture.
🍾 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