Clemens Busch Riesling Marienburg Rothenpfad GG 2018

Both a touch of reduction and a notion of fine, freshly crushed herbs rise from the glass. The palate is concentrated and brings layered notions of fruit: of Mirabelle and Reine Claude skins with a pleasantly bitter edge, of gentle juicy plum, of ripe and vivid lemon peel. Then there is the murmuring backdrop of stone. Clemens Busch has done it again: presented a very honest, completely individual and utterly disarming take on the Mosel.

Aprikose in der Nase, Weinbergpfirsich, auch kräuterige Noten, Stein. In einer schlank gefassten Form zeigt sich viel Substanz, dicht und straff und doch großzügig und fein gearbeitet, feine Mineralität, großes Potenzial.

The golden-yellow colored 2018 Marienburg GG Rothenpfad is pure, fresh and complex yet delicate on the elegant and subtle nose where perfectly ripe and healthy Riesling aromas intermix with herbal and stony notes. Silky, vital and nervously mineral on the palate, this is a rich and intense yet finessed and tensioned, not fully dry but juicy and warming Riesling with generosity, finesse and stimulating salinity on the crystalline and persistently aromatics finish. An impressive dry Riesling, it's already digestible yet can be cellared for at least 12 years. 13% alcohol. Tasted from AP 3319 in July 2020.