Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese GK Auction Nr32
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, classic roasted duck with fruit glazes, and rich blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the legendary Ernst Loosen, the Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese Goldkapsel Auction bottling represents the pinnacle of Mosel craftsmanship. The Urziger Wurzgarten, or 'spice garden of Urzig,' is a legendary amphitheater vineyard famed for its striking, iron-rich red volcanic soil and weathered slate. Unlike the blue slate found elsewhere in the Mosel, this unique terroir imparts an exotic, fiery personality to the 100% Riesling grapes, yielding intense aromas of tropical fruit, ginger, and wild herbs. This rare bottling, designated with a Goldkapsel and sold exclusively at the prestigious VDP auctions, is made from highly select, late-harvested grapes from extremely old, ungrafted vines. Fermented in traditional Fuder oak casks, it beautifully balances rich, concentrated sweetness with a vibrant, electric acidity.
🍾 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.