Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese Versteigerung Nr53
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, rich duck pate, and artisanal blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Urziger Wurzgarten, or 'spice garden of Urzig,' is one of the Mosel's most spectacular and unusual vineyards. Rising like a sheer amphitheater of red volcanic soil and slate, it imparts a uniquely exotic, spicy character to the Riesling grapes grown here, quite distinct from the blue slate found elsewhere in the region. This rare 'Versteigerung' (Auction) bottling represents the absolute pinnacle of Dr. Ernst Loosen's craft. Sourced from extremely old, ungrafted vines, this Spatlese is selected from the finest single cask to be sold exclusively at the prestigious annual VDP wine auctions in Trier. Fermented with native yeasts and aged in traditional oak Fuder, it delivers a breathtaking balance of luscious sweetness, electric acidity, and complex notes of tropical fruit, star anise, and smoky minerality.
🍾 About the Producer
The historic Dr. Loosen estate has been in the Loosen family for over two centuries, situated along the dramatic, slate-lined slopes of the Middle Mosel in Bernkastel-Kues, Germany. Since taking over management in 1988, Ernst Loosen has revitalized the winery by strictly focusing on low yields, meticulous vineyard stewardship, and minimal intervention in the cellar. The estate is blessed with extraordinarily old, ungrafted Riesling vines in legendary Grand Cru (Grosse Lage) vineyards such as Erdener Prälat, Wehlener Sonnenuhr, and Bernkasteler Lay. Dr. Loosen is globally celebrated for producing pure, expressive, and age-worthy Rieslings that range from vibrant dry bottlings to lusciously complex, mineral-laced Prädikat and dessert wines.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling