Dr Loosen Urziger Wurzgarten Riesling Auslese 2014

Dr Loosen Ürziger Würzgarten Riesling Auslese, Mosel, Germany, 2014 

Grape: 100% Riesling, hand harvested from 100 year old vines, unoaked.  

Auslese [OWS-lay-zuh] means “selected from the harvest,” and is a luscious sweet wine made from very ripe clusters that are about 50 percent affected by botrytis. The resulting wine is dense, intensely flavored and rich on the palate, but balanced by Riesling's naturally crisp acidity. The red volcanic soil of the Ürziger Würzgarten vineyard produces wines of a completely unique nature. The wines showcase the typically juicy and precocious fruit of the “spice garden,” with a rich mouth feel, zippy acidity and lingering finish.

Critics' Tasting Notes:

"Dusty floral perfume juxtaposes struck flint and slate on the nose of this deft, dainty auslese. Pristine tangerine and apricot flavors are ripe but crisp, highlighted by a bristling stream of acidity. Exotic spice and dusty pollen notes reverberate warmly on the finish. Ready to drink now but structured enough to continue to improve through at least 2030."

93/100 points, WINE ENTHUSIAST, January 2017

"Hints of lanolin and slate offset zesty lemon and lime on the nose here. Grapefruit and lime flavors are unctuously sweet and palate clinging yet ever so light and luminous.”

94/100 points, winemag.com, April 2019