Marienburg Raffes Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2040
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted pork belly, pan-seared scallops with lemon-butter sauce, spicy Thai green curry
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from a legendary, amphitheater-like parcel within the grand Pündericher Marienburg vineyard, the 'Raffes' Riesling represents the absolute pinnacle of Clemens Busch's biodynamic craftsmanship. This tiny, dizzyingly steep plot is home to ancient, ungrafted Riesling vines—some over a century old—clinging desperately to weathered grey slate soils. Cultivated with meticulous biodynamic care, the grapes undergo spontaneous fermentation in traditional oak Fuder casks and rest on their lees for an extended period. The resulting wine is a masterpiece of tension and depth, weaving together intense, smoky slate minerality, wild herbs, and concentrated orchard fruit. It is a profound, structured, and deeply intellectual expression of Mosel terroir that tells the story of survival and heritage in every sip.
🍾 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
12-13%