Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, rich foie gras, and fruit-based desserts like peach cobbler or apple tarte tatin.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Urziger Wurzgarten, or 'spice garden of Urzig,' is one of the Mosel's most dramatic and legendary vineyards. Rising precipitously from the river, its unique red volcanic soils and red slate set it apart from the blue slate found elsewhere in the region, imparting a famously exotic, spicy, and tropical character to the Riesling grapes. Dr. Loosen's Trockenbeerenauslese represents the absolute pinnacle of sweet winemaking. Crafted only in exceptional vintages, it requires painstaking hand-harvesting of individual grapes shriveled by noble rot to a raisin-like state. This labor-intensive process yields a nectar of astonishing concentration, where rich sweetness is perfectly balanced by the Mosel's trademark electric acidity. The estate, managed by the charismatic Ernst Loosen, champions these ungrafted, ancient vines to produce a wine of historical depth and peerless complexity.
🍾 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