The fine wine market may currently be in a difficult place but that has not stemmed the flow of exciting new international releases on La Place de Bordeaux. The latest comes from Ernst Loosen from the Mosel. The Mosel-based wine producer is releasing his Weingut Dr. Loosen, Zach. Bergweiler-Prüm Erben, a limited-production wine that will be offered exclusively through La Place de Bordeaux. The negociants are Barrière Frères, Compagnie Médociane des Grands Crus, Crus et Domaines de France, CVBG, Ulysse Cazabonne and Twins represented by Bureau des Grands Vins. The cuvee is Loosen’s latest exploration of the historical winemaking traditions of the region and this singular winemaking project pays tribute to Zacharias Bergweiler-Prüm, Ernst’s maternal great-grandfather, a major Mosel wine producer at the turn of the 20th century. Born in 1861, Zach. Bergweiler built a substantial wine estate in the village of Wehlen, which became even more important after he married into the other highly successful wine family of the village: the Prüm family. At the time, German wines were among the most highly regarded and expensive wines in the world and the era has long since fascinated Loosen. Since the 1990s, he has experimented with wines made according to the traditional wine-making practices of the region, before the major changes brought about by the 1971 German wine law, and since 2012, he has produced a range of “Tradition” Prädikat wines, loyal to those historical standards. With the Zach. Bergweiler-Prüm Erben project, he is taking this historical approach to
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