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
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