Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Kabinett
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Vietnamese dishes, classic roast pork with apples, and fresh sushi or sashimi.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Urziger Wurzgarten, or 'spice garden of Urzig,' is one of the Mosel's most dramatic and unique vineyards. Unlike the blue slate that dominates the region, the Wurzgarten is blessed with a striking red volcanic soil rich in iron, known as rotliegend. This distinct terroir imparts an intensely exotic, spicy, and tropical character to the 100% Riesling grapes grown on its dizzyingly steep slopes, where many vines remain ungrafted and over a century old. Ernst Loosen crafts this Kabinett to showcase the vibrant, feather-light elegance of the Mosel. Fermented in a combination of stainless steel and traditional Fuder casks, the wine beautifully balances a delicate sweetness with a laser-like, refreshing acidity, capturing the essence of this historic 'spice garden' in every sip.
🍾 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