Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Auslese Goldkapsel Nr29
⏳ Drinking Window
2026 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort, rich duck liver pate, and fruit-based desserts like apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Urziger Wurzgarten, or 'spice garden of Urzig,' is one of the Mosel's most iconic vineyards, famous for its striking red volcanic sandstone and slate soils that stand in stark contrast to the region's typical blue slate. This unique terroir imparts a famously exotic, spicy character to the 100% Riesling wines grown here. Dr. Loosen's Auslese Goldkapsel represents an ultra-selective harvest of botrytis-affected grapes from ancient, ungrafted vines. The 'Goldkapsel' (gold capsule) denotes a wine of auction-grade richness and concentration, balancing luscious sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity that preserves its freshness for decades. Legend has it that the vineyard's name originates from a historical monastery garden, but today it is synonymous with some of the most complex, age-worthy sweet wines in the world.
🍾 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