Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese
⏳ Drikkevindue
2025 - 2075
🍽️ Mad & Vin-match
Classic blue cheeses such as Roquefort or Stilton, rich foie gras, and fruit-based desserts like peach cobbler or apple tarte tatin.
✨ Tekniske specifikationer
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.
🍾 Om vinhuset / producenten
Den historiske vingård Dr. Loosen har været i Loosen-familiens eje i over 200 år og ligger idyllisk på de dramatiske, skiferklædte skråninger i Bernkastel-Kues i Mittelmosel. Da Ernst Loosen overtog ansvaret i 1988, indledte han en markant revitalisering af vinhuset med et kompromisløst fokus på lave høstudbytter, omhyggelig pleje i vinmarkerne og minimal intervention i kælderen. Ejendommen råder over usædvanligt gamle, uhegnede Riesling-stokke på legendariske Grosse Lage-marker som Erdener Prälat, Wehlener Sonnenuhr og Bernkasteler Lay. Dr. Loosen nyder verdensomspændende anerkendelse for sine rene, udtryksfulde og lagringsværdige Riesling-vine, der spænder fra spændstige, tørre aftapninger til overdådigt komplekse og mineralske Prädikat- og dessertvine.
🍇 Grape Varieties
100% Riesling