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
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