Vom Grauen Schiefer Riesling
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared freshwater trout, spicy Thai green curry, roasted pork belly
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the biodynamic pioneer Clemens Busch, the 'Vom Grauen Schiefer' (meaning 'from grey slate') Riesling is a profound liquid translation of the steep, dramatic slopes of Pünderich in the Mosel valley. While the estate is famous for isolating parcels by slate color, this bottling focuses entirely on the classic grey slate soils of the Marienburg vineyard. These devonian slate soils absorb the daytime sun and radiate warmth back to the vines at night, imparting a signature smoky minerality and elegant herbal complexity to the wine. Fermented spontaneously with native yeasts in traditional, neutral oak Fuder casks and aged on its fine lees, this Riesling beautifully marries the Mosel's historic winemaking heritage with a vibrant, contemporary precision, showing off notes of white peach, wet stone, and wild thyme.
🍾 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
11.5-12.5%