Marienburg Fahrlay Riesling Auslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2045
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, foie gras, fruit-based desserts
✨ Technical Specifications
The Pündericher Marienburg vineyard is a legendary steep site along the Mosel, named after a historic Franciscan convent that once stood on the ridge overlooking the river. Within this grand amphitheater, the 'Fahrlay' parcel is highly prized for its unique, extremely hard blue slate soil. Weingut Clemens Busch, a pioneer of biodynamic viticulture in the region, coaxes an extraordinary expression from this terroir. For the Marienburg Fahrlay Riesling Auslese, grapes affected by noble rot (botrytis) are meticulously hand-harvested. The wine is fermented spontaneously with native yeasts and aged in traditional, large oak Fuder casks. The result is a masterpiece of tension: a luscious, sweet wine balanced by a vibrant, electric acidity and a profound, salty minerality characteristic of the blue slate.
🍾 About the Producer
Weingut Clemens Busch is a benchmark biodynamic producer established within family lineage since 1802 and headquartered in a 1663 half-timbered riverside estate in Pünderich, at the threshold of the Terrassenmosel. Celebrated as early champions of ecological viticulture in Germany, Clemens and Rita Busch converted to organic methods in 1984 and later embraced biodynamics, now managing roughly 20 hectares alongside their son Johannes. Viticulture is dominated by ungrafted, steep-slope Riesling vines perched on the dramatic Pündericher Marienburg amphitheater. The estate meticulously isolates individual historical parcels—such as Fahrlay, Falkenlay, Felsterrasse, and Rothenpfad—categorized on capsules and labels by bedrock typology across blue, grey, and red Devonian slates. In the cellar, natural fermentations proceed spontaneously in traditional neutral wooden Fuder casks with prolonged fine lees contact. The resulting dry Grosses Gewächs and pristine Prädikat dessert bottlings deliver structural depth, saline minerality, and profound textural complexity.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
7-8.5%