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Clemens Busch Mosel Riesling Vom Grauen Schiefer 2022

Name: Clemens Busch Mosel Riesling Vom Grauen Schiefer 2022
Brand: Springboard Wine Company [SWC]
SKU: SF-SWC--061126-43
Price: 29.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$29⁹⁹ ~~$34⁹⁹~~

If you want to understand what all the Clemens Busch fuss is about without committing to a single grand cru parcel, start here. Vom Grauen Schiefer means "from the gray slate," and it's drawn from the same celebrated sites that feed Busch's top dry bottlings, just blended across the gray-slate vineyards. The result is a dry Mosel Riesling of remarkable purity for its place in the lineup: lemon-lime brightness, stone-dust minerality and that cool, energetic drive that defines the estate. Biodynamically farmed from old, ungrafted vines. Honestly one of the smartest dry Rieslings you can buy.

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Antonio Galloni

91 points

"The 2022 Riesling vom grauen Schiefer was harvested chiefly in the upper reaches and crest of the Marienburg site, where the influence of the river is lessened, and the wines turn out more slender. The nose brims with ripe Mirabelle edged with citrus, but there is juicy ripeness, suffused with a little slatey smoke. The slender palate puts its lemon flavors to the fore and supplements them with an edge of lemon pithiness and a mouth-watering, salty tang. Very moreish." —Anne Krebiehl MW

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.