Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Spatlese Versteigerung Nr59
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Spicy Thai or Sichuan cuisine, roasted glazed duck with fruit-based reduction, and aged or blue cheeses.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary, precipitously steep amphitheater of the Urziger Wurzgarten, or 'spice garden of Urzig,' this rare Riesling Spatlese is a masterpiece of the Mosel. Unlike the blue slate soils typical of the region, the Wurzgarten is defined by a unique red volcanic soil rich in iron, which imparts a famously exotic, fiery, and spicy character to the grapes. This particular bottling is a 'Versteigerung' (Auction) wine, representing an ultra-limited, superior parcel selection destined for the prestigious annual VDP auction in Trier. Crafted by the iconic Ernst Loosen, who revitalized his family's centuries-old estate with a focus on old, ungrafted vines, this white wine showcases a brilliant tension between opulent tropical fruit sweetness, vibrant Mosel acidity, and a distinct, lingering herbal-spice complexity. It is a liquid testament to one of Germany's most dramatic terroir landscapes.
🍾 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