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
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)
11.5%