Marienburg Riesling Beerenauslese
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2065
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheese, fruit tarts, foie gras
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted from the legendary, dizzyingly steep slopes of the Pündericher Marienburg, this Beerenauslese is a monument to patience and the magic of noble rot. The vineyard itself takes its name from a historic convent that once stood high above the Mosel river loop. In exceptional years, Clemens Busch meticulously hand-selects individual shriveled, botrytis-affected berries from their diverse slate soils. Through biodynamic farming and minimal cellar intervention, this liquid gold captures the essence of the Mosel. It balances an intense, honeyed concentration of dried apricots and exotic spices with a razor-sharp, electric acidity derived from the slate, ensuring the wine remains incredibly vibrant despite its profound sweetness.
🍾 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