VDP.GROSSE LAGE⎪GG Réserve

GREAT DRY MOSEL RIESLING.

Since the 2011 vintage, we have been producing VDP.GROSSES GEWÄCHS Réserve wines from selected VDP.GROSSE LAGE vineyards. These currently include Wehlener Sonnenuhr, Ürziger Würzgarten and Erdener Prälat, with additional sites to follow in the future. At present, reserves from the 2018 and 2019 vintages are available.

With their diverse soil formations, blue slate, volcanic rock and red slate, these vineyards, planted with ungrafted vines, represent the very quintessence of our estate.

Only perfectly healthy grapes from the finest parcels, harvested and rigorously selected by hand, are spontaneously fermented in old Fuder casks. The wines mature there for 24 months on the full lees, without racking, followed by a further 24 months of bottle ageing. Only then are they released for sale.

Roter Schieferboden am Weinberg des Weinguts Doktor Loosen

Pure terroir. Pure expression.

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⇾ VDP.GG Réserve

⇾ VDP.GROSSE LAGE

⇾ VDP Restsüßen Prädikats-Weine

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⇾ VDP.ORTSWEIN

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⇾ VDP.GUTSWEIN

VDP.Classification

Since 1993, Dr. Loosen Winery has been a member of the VDP (Association of German Prädikat Wine Estates).

Through the VDP classification, the estate commits to the highest quality standards, placing origin and terroir at the center of its winemaking philosophy.

Dr. Loosen Estate

Pioneer of the rediscovered German Riesling culture

In family ownership for over 200 years, the estate has been led by Ernst F. Loosen since 1988. In his view, great wines are the perfect expression of soil, climate, and grape variety.

With the heritage of his ancestors – own-rooted, old vines in historic Grosse Lagen of the Central Mosel – he found exactly the material needed to craft distinctive, complex wines of world-class caliber. Today, Dr. Loosen is internationally recognized as the flagship of a rediscovered German Riesling culture.

Since 1993, the winery has been a member of the VDP (Verband Deutscher Prädikatsweingüter).

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OUR VINEYARDS

In the 1868 vineyard map of the Trier administrative district, created as a basis for tax assessment for Mosel estates, nine of our vineyards were designated as Grosse Lagen.

This classification is comparable to the Grand Cru system of Burgundy and was updated in 1995 by Stuart Pigott and Hugh Johnson in their German Wine Atlas. Today, we deliberately draw on this historically proven, cultural classification.

Since 1988, we have bottled exclusively Rieslings from these classified Grosse Lagen as single-vineyard wines, while all other wines are released by us as Gutsriesling.

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