Dr. Loosen Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spatlese 2018

The Spätlese designation means that the grapes get an extra week or two of hang time, which helps them develop higher ripeness and deeper flavors. The Erdener Treppchen Spätlese is a fruit-driven Riesling that combines extraordinary concentration and length with bracing minerality.

The Erdener Treppchen Riesling Spätlese opens with clear, precise, fresh and elegant, flinty flavored fruit aromas of ripe Riesling grapes. Round, piquant and not all too sweet, this is an elegant, lush, piquant and racy-mineral Spätlese. It has a lean, straight and pretty salty finish. Pure, piquant and stimulating, this is a gastronomic Spätlese with 8.5% alcohol and moderate sweetness, but a lot of grip.