Riesling Trocken
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout, roast chicken with herbs, mild vegetable curries
✨ Technical Specifications
The Clemens Busch Riesling Trocken serves as the magnificent calling card for this legendary estate's biodynamic philosophy. Sourced from steep, slate-rich slopes in the village of Pünderich, this dry estate Riesling is a masterclass in Mosel purity. The Busch family has tended these historic slopes for generations, transitioning entirely to organic and biodynamic viticulture to preserve the delicate ecosystem of the river valley. Hand-harvested grapes undergo spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in traditional, neutral oak Fuder casks. This patient, low-intervention approach coaxes out a profound mineral tension, marrying the natural, electric acidity of Riesling with a textured, saline finish that reflects the ancient grey slate soils of the region.
🍾 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
11.5%