The winery
Clemens Busch
An estate in the Mosel (Pünderich) known for Riesling from the terraced Marienburg vineyards and for natural and biodynamic farming practices.
- Mosel · Germania
- 1 product
The story
Family-owned winery based in Pünderich. Clemens and Rita Busch reorganized the estate in the 1980s and refocused it on producing site-expressive Riesling. Over the years they progressively adopted organic methods and later biodynamic practices, with their son Johannes also involved in the winemaking.
Production philosophy
The approach aims to express the soil and the vineyard: careful vineyard management, spontaneous fermentations, limited cellar interventions, and ageing in large neutral casks to preserve tension and purity.
Terroir and vineyards
The estate is based in Pünderich and operates mainly on the opposite riverbank in the extensive Pündericher Marienburg vineyard, a system of terraces on slate soils that characterizes the local wines.
Awards and recognition
The wines receive high ratings in guides and reviews: very high scores have been reported for some Marienburg cuvées.
Characteristics
- Grape varieties
- Riesling
- Spätburgunder
- Hectares
- 20.0
What makes it distinctive
- Production is largely concentrated in the Pündericher Marienburg vineyard, with distinct sous-parcels on different schists.
- Organic cultivation and adoption of certified biodynamic practices.
- Almost exclusively focused on Riesling, with a small production of Pinot Noir reserved for Blanc de Noir.
- Natural winemaking: hand-harvested grapes, spontaneous fermentations, aging in large neutral foudres, and minimal use of sulfites.
- Range that includes single-vineyard bottlings and Grosses Gewächs/Kabinett wines, both dry and sweet.
