Clemens Busch | Mosel | Riesling Marienburg “Fahrlay” Auslese VDP Grosse Lage | 2017 | 375ml | bio

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Product description for Clemens Busch Riesling Marienburg “Fahrlay” Auslese VDP Grosse Lage 2017 (bio)

Directly opposite the family home on the other bank of the Moselle is the majority of the Busch family’s vineyards in the Marienburg vineyard. The former division into individual vineyards fell victim to wine legislation in the 1970s. To emphasize the specific differences within the Marienburg vineyard, Clemens Busch vinifies the plots separately and bottles the wines under the former parcel names, such as Fahrlay or Flakenlay. This allows the different slate soils (blue, gray, and red slate) and the specific microclimates to clearly express themselves in the wine. The wines, which are harvested very late, are characterized by enormous richness and power, as well as mineral substance.

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Vinous

Score: 91

Quince preserves, white peach syrup and marzipan dominate the headily ripe nose and lush, creamy palate of this concentrated Auslese, whose sense of sheer sweetness manages to pull back from becoming sticky on a mouthwateringly sustained, unexpectedly juicy and animating finish. As is often the case, I have the sense here that a Busch botrytis selection is the necessary byproduct of this estate’s principle pride and joy – namely, its dry wines. I admit to having scarcely any experience with older nobly sweet Busch wines, so my assessments of vinous life span are especially speculative and might well prove unfair to the potential of a wine like this one to focus and blossom with time.
— David Schildknecht
Drinking window: 2019 – 2038
Review date: Jan 2020

Producer website: https://clemens-busch.de/