Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Auslese Nr33
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2055
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Rich blue cheeses such as Roquefort, spicy Sichuan or Thai cuisine, and classic fruit tarts like peach or apricot crostata.
✨ Technical Specifications
Nestled in the dramatic, amphitheater-like bends of the Mosel River, the Urziger Wurzgarten—or 'spice garden of Urzig'—is one of Germany's most legendary vineyards. Unlike the blue Devonian slate that dominates the region, the Wurzgarten is blessed with a unique, iron-rich red volcanic soil. This distinct terroir, combined with ancient, ungrafted Riesling vines that cling to the dizzyingly steep slopes, imparts an intensely exotic, spicy character to the grapes. Dr. Loosen's Auslese Nr33 represents a meticulous selection of these late-harvested, botrytis-affected grapes. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged in traditional large oak Fuder casks, this white wine beautifully balances luscious tropical sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity, carrying the historical legacy of Mosel's finest winemaking traditions.
🍾 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