Description
Clemens’ only parcel of blue slate on the Marienburg, which imparts luster, florality, sizzling acids and fantastic staying power to the wine. There is some skin contact in this wine’s vinification, lending a mild tannic backbone. It’s a steely pleaseure for Riesling purists who treasure minerality above all.
Hard to believe that this was bottled after 28 months maturation on the full lees, because it is so vivid, with a ton of dried herbs, plus caramelized peach and pear. Enormously deep and structured, but with a certain lightness of touch at the enormously long and enormously slatey finish. This gives you a very good idea how the great dry Mosel wines from before the First World War tasted. From biodynamically grown grapes with Respekt certification.
Clemens wines are fermented spontaneously with wild yeasts, at low temperatures, in very old 1000-litre barrels. Extended lees contact occurs in a combination of stainless steel and very old barrels. Apart from small doses of sulphur at bottling, nothing is added to the wines at any stage.
The majority of Clemens’s production is grown on the Pündericher Marienburg considered one of the best sites in the Mosel. It is a 25 hectare vineyard, that spans the hillside facing south/southwest opposite the village of Pünderich, it is so steep it needs to be accessed by boat! The Marienburg site was originally a much smaller parcel that shared the hill with other vineyards, despite the unification of these parcels due to land reforms in 1971 Clemens, conscious of the different soils and micro-climates on the hill, vinifies and bottles his wines based on the original vineyard names. The soils comprise of sand, clay and slate and the altitude is 100 – 150 metres high.
Vegan friendly.
Biodynamic farming.
13.5% / 75cl
