Who is dr loosen

The cool climate allows the grapes to ripen slowly while retaining bright acidity. The "Sundial of Wehlen" is one of the greatest vineyards in the Middle Mosel. The soil is almost nothing but broken shards of blue Devonian slate, which gives a lively minerality to the wines.

South east facing on iron rich red slate soils, the long hang time here gives the grapes extraordinary aromatic development. Fermented using natural yeasts in old litre fuder barrels and given 12 months ageing on the lees with no batonnage. Blend : Riesling ABV : It shows a clear, intense yet subtle and deep, highly complex but also refined bouquet of very fine red slate and herbal aromas as well as perfectly clear and elegant Riesling fruits.

Silky textured, highly finessed and perfectly balanced on the palate, this is a very intense and juicy, enormously long and concentrated yet finessed and mouthwatering Treppchen with the crystalline grip of broken slate and the intensity and complexity of biblical vines in a great terroir. The Treppchen is arguably the finest dry wine I have ever tasted from Ernie Loosen. Highly recommended. Tasted at the domain in September Packed with fruit and so succulent, although it is properly dry.

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Delivery times vary considerably with Australia Post and unfortunately there is no Express Delivery Option for wine because it is fragile and heavy. Strict government health and safety requirements and very high parcel volumes are causing significant backlogs at the main NSW and VIC sorting facilities. When the stately homes whose family names also appear on these labels cozy up to 12th Century churches and cobbled courtyards, you can be forgiven for imagining unbroken lines of winemaking patriarchy stretching back for a millennium, as each father handed the cellar keys to his son through the ages.

By comparison, the beginnings of the estate known as Dr. Ernst Loosen was chosen by his father and grandfather to take over the family estate from among his siblings and other members of his generation more by process of elimination than by destiny.

Bernie specialized in tropical pig disease. We were old hippies. We got this other guy from Tonga to come with us, and he was great at logistics. He was in college and said that his whole program was paid by the German state to help develop Tonga. He had a great relationship with the King of Tonga and used to organize booze for the king.

We all lived together here in the house, and it was a great time. We continued college here. The door was always open. Sometimes I came home at 4 AM and tried to find a bed in this room house without any luck. Friends told friends told friends. There was always a bed, always booze, always a party. It carried on that way until I met my wife in Loosen has not lost his reputation for partying, even after forty years.

Indeed, several winemakers I know in the U. But if Loosen has kept that reputation, it certainly has not been at the expense of what is now considered to be one of the best and most successful modern German wine estates, a reputation earned, as it were, with an equal amount of perseverance.

We had an idea, but neither of us had been trained. My father was ill, and he was clueless anyway. He always had hired a winemaker. We were very passionate, very convinced.

You have to have your own experience. We learned more every year. I think was our first break-even year. And things have looked up ever since. The day his father died, Loosen was handed the keys to not one, but two wine estates. As you know, the most expensive thing you can spend money on is planting new vineyards. My father and grandfather never planted, and my great-grandfather last planted in The oldest vines at the time were headed towards years old, and were growing on their original rootstocks, buried deep into the fractured slate that helps them all but defy gravity on the precipitous walls of the Mosel valley.

If the vines were two generations old, then so were most of the implements in the cellar, leaving Loosen and Schug to figure out how to make wine the same way they were growing it: the old fashioned way.

The pair approached winemaking with the same fervor they pursued the hedonistic lifestyle they had begun in college. While that might have characterized their very first harvest, Loosen got serious quite quickly.

The student of Roman ruins found something to love in the slippery slate and his rows of vines and there was no turning back. Loosen switched his studies to wine, in the classroom and out.

He studied enology at Geisenheim University, and spent several years traveling all over the world tasting wine, and apprenticing with other winemakers in between his own harvests. Loosen one of the largest producers in the Mosel. But the core of the Loosen portfolio are the six old-vine sites from which Loosen makes both dry and sweet wines that are benchmark examples of the form. With the exception of the Dr. L wine, all the wines are fermented with indigenous yeasts, and aged on their lees in massive old oak barrels for at least 9 months before being racked.

The singe vineyard wines are aged in old oak for between 12 for sweet and up to 24 months for dry on the lees before filtration and bottling. I did the same thing. And drinks like a cow. Not a big spender or someone looking for prestige, and he loves wine. So that means the estate will be in good hands — someone who honors it and gets it. Of course, he has to go through training. Floral high notes. Fresh acidity, ripe tannins, dark fruits, anise, liquorice, detailed and intense, bit high alcohol, long finish.

Their "late comers" — Macans, Pintia, and Alion — showed better than ever, while Valbuena and Unico have pushed the boundaries thanks not only for the best vintages ever but also with the parcel by parcel vinification process debuting in So impressive wines. For so long now, Germany has been known for Riesling. Suddenly, weedy Spatburgunder has moved up a notch of ripeness.

Even Riesling has become more approachable, with less residual sugar needed to balance out razor-sharp acidity. It all adds up to promise, to a possible German boom time. Of course, unchecked climate change will eventually swallow up most of the wine industry as we know it, but there has to be a silver lining, if just in the short term. Extra bits in italics. The vintage is rather successful although water stress and heat have been the main topics and made the live for the vintners not easier.

However the results are very convincing. Apples, minerals and quite easy nose, light on it's feet. Fresh acidity, nuanced and again light on it's feet but more intense than it sugests.

Lovely balance, nuanced and really elegant, lovely, some would say light, long. Loosen Bright yellow colour with green hue. Elegant nose with ripe fruit, peaches and apricots, pineapples, mineral spiciness. On the palate well structured with ripe yellow stone fruit and hints of citrus fruit, balanced acidity and a hint of sweetness in the finish.

A very elegant, fine wine. Full and quite dense on the palate with less charm than nose, but a serious built texture and good length. The tasting was hold on August 29 and 30, As the sheer quantity of wines available was too much for a short tasting session, I focussed on the grape variety Riesling and on the rather classic areas such as Mosel, Saar, Ruwer, Pfalz, Rheingau, Nahe and Mittelrhein.

From these wine regions I have tasted all Rieslings available. In addition I also tasted a small selection of Riesling from Rheinhessen. The tasting showed a very high and rather homogenous quality level due to good conditions in but also applied experience and knowledge of the vintners.

A very successful tasting with highly recommendable wines.