2019 Clemens Busch Riesling Vom Blauen Schiefer
Mosel, Germany
Piercing dry Mosel Riesling from the brilliant Clemens Busch.
$95.00
About The Wine
Clemens Busch was a man well ahead of the curve, as he began converting his vineyards to organics in 1984. He now has each site certified biodynamic and is producing powerful Rieslings with no additions save the minimum amount of effective sulphur.
Blauen Schiefer translates as Blue Slate in English - a reference to the stones littering the Marienburg GG vineyard, which is early-picked source of the fruit for this super taut and crunchy wine.
You get the sense that this wine is truly made in the vineyard - it's taut, long and incredibly intense, that sense of stony minerality delivered in spades. It's an exceptional expression of dry Riesling from the Mosel.
About Clemens Busch
Clemens Busch is the fifth generation of Busch men to farm their family's vineyards along the Mosel.
The man is an iconoclast, a renegade, and arguably the best 'natural' producer of fine wines in the region.
A man well ahead of the curve, Clemens began converting his vineyards to organics in 1984. He now has each site certified biodynamic and is producing powerful Rieslings with no additions save the minimum amount of effective sulphur
Mosel, Germany
From The Importer
The 2019 vintage wines show the signature precision combining the ripe vibrant fruit flavours of the warmer season with balancing acidity. The dry Rieslings are real show-stoppers, fresh with excellent inner tension. The sweet and noble rot wines of 2019 are nuanced, with light, playful sweetness and elegant acidity – perfectly balanced.
Clemens’s Rieslings are one of the greatest expressions of soil transfer (terroir) available today, the perfect combination of exceptional site, old vines and meticulous bio-dynamic farming.
Blend : Riesling (100%)
ABV : 12.5%
Closure : Cork
Drink Until : 2032
Bottle Size : 750ml
Mosel, Germany
Critic Reviews
'“The 2019 Riesling Vom Blauen Schiefer is pure, fine and crunchy on the aromatic yet slate-driven and elegant nose. Round and lush on the palate, this is a fine, intense and concentrated dry Riesling with a complex and powerful finish. It comes from old vines that are the source for the Fairly GG as well. Tasted in September 2020, just a day after the bottling.” - Stephan Reinhardt (The Wine Advocate)
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