Marienburg Fahrlay Riesling Beerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit-based tarts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
The Marienburg Fahrlay Riesling Beerenauslese is a masterpiece of extreme viticulture, born from the steep, dizzying slopes of Pünderich in the Mosel. The Fahrlay parcel is legendary for its intense, hard blue slate soils, which yield wines of striking minerality and laser-like acidity. To craft a Beerenauslese, Clemens Busch relies on the magical touch of botrytis cinerea (noble rot). In favorable years, highly skilled pickers meticulously harvest individual shriveled, sugar-concentrated berries by hand on these near-vertical cliffs. Fermented slowly with native yeasts, this rare nectar balances luscious, honeyed sweetness with the vibrant, electric acidity characteristic of the blue slate, resulting in a wine of profound depth, complexity, and ethereal lightness.
🍾 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
5.5-7.5%