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Clemens Busch Mosel Riesling Marienburg Falkenlay Grosses Gewachs 2023

$6499 $7199

This is Clemens Busch at full volume. The Falkenlay parcel sits on gray slate and is one of the most protected, prized corners of the Marienburg hill, historically a grower favorite for its depth of fruit. Bottled as a Grosses Gewachs, this is a bone-dry Riesling built for the table and the cellar, where slate-driven minerality meets serious concentration and a long, mineral-soaked finish. Busch farms biodynamically with old, ungrafted vines, and it shows in the intensity and purity here. A flagship dry Mosel that rewards both patience and a proper glass.

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Antonio Galloni

96 points

"The 2023 Pündericher Marienburg Grosses Gewächs Falkenlay, from a site on gray slate that benefits from warm river thermals, is all suppleness of earth and lemon, carrting right through onto the palate where stoniness reigns. This exudes stone, fill, zest and power with lots of direction and drive." —Anne Krebiehl MW

Robert Parker

94 points

"The 2023 Falkenlay GG Pündericher Marienburg offers a generous and irresistible nose of mango and other ripe and juicy tropical fruit aromas intertwined with notes of crushed salt and stones. On the palate, this is a savory, fresh and still sharply edgy Riesling with no mercy. It is pure and crunchy but also a bit drying on the finish. This is a flinty wine for vikings; even though the fruit is concentrated and fleshy, the acidity is still sharp and combined with SO2. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted at the domaine in March 2026." —Stephan Reinhardt

More about Clemens Busch

Clemens Busch is among the Mosel producers who were early leaders in what you might think of as Germany's new school. It's a movement that emphasizes dry wines, organic farming, and traditional techniques in the winery (such as natural fermentation and the use of fuders), often made from old vines in out-of-the-way places. It's a movement that has given us names like Peter Lauer, Knebel, Weiser-Künstler, and Falkenstein, and has definitely been a key factor in re-sparking American interest in German wine.

Clemens Busch makes wines in a wild corner of the northern Mosel where the vineyards are collectively known as Marienburg. The Marienberg was collateral damage of German bureaucracy in 1971. It's 23 hectares were expanded to include 91 hectares and its reputation quickly faded. Clemens and Rita have spent a lifetime teasing out the once recognized parcels and applying their lost names. Red, grey and blue slate snake through the vineyard. Each bottle, besides being a single vineyard, is further divided by slate type with a corresponding capsule to indicate which color it was grown on.

A fifth generation winemaker in his family (with the same name for seven generations!), Clemens Busch is a pioneer of biodynamic Riesling in the Mosel and quite the iconoclast. He converted his insanely steep vineyards in Pünderich to organic farming back in 1984 and has more recently converted them to biodynamic farming, something far from the norm in the Mosel. The town of Pünderich sits right on the border between the middle and lower Mosel where there exists a wealth of diversity in soils - primarily gray slate, red slate, and blue slate.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Riesling

  • Vintage

    2023

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Style

    Fruity

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Light Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast chicken with lemon, pork loin with apples, or richer seafood like scallops and lobster.

Tasting Profile

Medium-bodied white, dry, with citrus, orchard fruit, stony minerality and a long, taut finish.

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