2007 Weingut Clemens Busch Riesling Spätlese trocken **

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 90 points

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  11/19/2010 - psi wrote: 90 Points

  Floral, flinty and spicy nose. A rich and almost nutty palate offering creamy minerality, spicy flavours and good acidity. Not a very complex style, but very well made.

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  6/6/2010 - jvogel wrote:

  Still not a fan. Ref. last TN. Waaay too much botrytis nuance on the palate. Lacking 'Ecken und Kanten'. I can appreciate the style, but I prefer it's more western protags, vis-a-vis Lauer, Niewo, et al. Still think Herr Busch is doing great things, however. But this bottling just wasn't for me.

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  9/9/2009 - jvogel wrote:

  Quite pronounced deep golden color. Copper, wintergreen, flint, some elusive spice note, and scotch...yes, scotch on the nose. This wine has me torn. While it doesn't taste flawed, I dare say it doesn't taste quite like Riesling either. Mandy said, 'Oh yeah, that's definitely Riesling,' when she first sniffed this after my quizzical looks. But I'm convinced I'd peg this as extremely good Alto Adige or Friuli--regardless, ITALIAN--Pinot Grigio. This wine just says Italy to me, through and through.
  
  Flavor-wise, this thankfully doesn't taste like scotch, and even more thanks that it tastes more like Riesling than the nose alludes. Right off the bat there are echoes of the dominating minerality, an almost overwhelming salinity that smacks of high-quality German mineral water gone flat. There is definitely some lime intensity in this, but darned if it doesn't morph into something positively Pfalz-isch, tasting more like the blazing basalt notes of Odinstal's BASALT or Burklin-Wolf's prodigious Forster Pechstein. An aloe note seems to permeate this wine when slightly more chilled. Warm, this aloe seems to subside to just straight agave-like tequila alcohol. Day 2, this was just a strange beast. No real elegance here, just a rock of a wine, dripping with ore and saline, bitter and dogged like a stale Triscuit. Wild. An oddity, to me at least, of the Mosel. The sweeter wines of this estate, and their feinherb creations with just a bit too much sugar but fun to drink nevertheless, are substantially more refined and transparent than this monster. I'd put this puppy in a line-up of Mittelhaardt Rieslings and watch in amazement as a group tried to determine the ringer.

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