- Region
- Moselle
- Producer
- Weingut Clemens Busch
- Vintage
- 2020
- Grape varieties
- 100% Riesling
- Bottle size
- 75 cl
- Alcohol
- 12%
- Classification
- VDP.Grosse Lage®
- Special characteristic
- Contains sulphites
- Organic
Grosses Gewächs quality – kept for at least 24 months on the gross lees in cask. Following this very long period of lees ageing, the wine was racked from the sediment and bottled unfiltered.
The property's reserve bottlings are less fruit-driven but come with a lovely line of ripe minerality.
The grapes for this Riesling are sourced from Fahrlay – a sub-plot of Pündericher Marienburg situated directly next to the Pünderich ferry crossing. 'Fahr' refers to the ferry, while 'Lay' is an old word that means slate. Fahrlay is the only Pünderich vineyard in which blue slate is the main constituent. The vineyard's extremely stony, blue weathered slate soil is particularly hard, forcing the vines to dig deep into subterranean slate fissures in order to reach water. This results in wines of extreme concentration and singular minerality.