2016 Marienburg Falkenlay Gr. Gewächs Mosel ClemensBusch

A very young and powerful wine in which the aromas of ripe stone fruits, creaminess and mineral freshness are all well-balanced in a very exciting way. The finish is long with a lovely interplay of herbal and buttery notes. Drink or hold. Made from biodynamically grown grapes and Respekt certified.

From weathered gray slate, Busch's 2016 Pündericher Marienburg Riesling GG "Falkenlay" offers a clear, pure and fine, highly complex and smoky bouquet of crushed stones and bright fruit aromas. Full-bodied, lush and salty, this is an enormously tensioned and intense Riesling that reveals a concentrated fruit core with a long, elegant and tensioned finish. The texture is almost silky and the minerality perfectly integrated. This is one of the finest of the 2016 GGs from the Mosel. Bottled in late September 2017; tasted February 2018. 2021 - 2036.

Seed-inflected lime, grapefruit, apple and pear mingle both on the nose and on a silken palate with subtly stony and bracingly saline, crystalline mineral impingements. This displays a striking sense of density allied to alcoholic levity and transparency, finishing with vibrant, shimmering interaction of fruit and mineral elements. Conceivably it's just more developed (in an entirely positive way) than are this collection's other Grosse Gewächse (whereas Falkenlay was notably recalcitrant in 2015), but my suspicion is that this will retain an edge over its siblings in clarity and animation.