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
Situated in the picturesque village of Pünderich along the dramatic slopes of Germany's Middle Mosel, Weingut Clemens Busch has been led by Clemens and Rita Busch since taking over the historic family estate in the 1980s. Regarded as pioneering trailblazers of organic and biodynamic viticulture in the region, the estate is dedicated to natural, low-intervention winemaking that deeply respects the ecosystem. Their work centers around the legendary, south-facing Pündericher Marienburg hillside, where varying sub-parcels of gray, red, and blue slate are vinified separately to showcase pure terroir expression. Clemens Busch is internationally acclaimed for profound, textured, and mineral-driven dry Rieslings—most notably their Grosses Gewächs expressions like Fahrlay, Falkenlay, and Rothenpfad—alongside exquisite noble sweet and sparkling wines.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Riesling
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
7-8.5%