Clemens Busch Riesling Marienburg Fahrlay Reserve GL 2017

95 points Stephen Reinhardt (Wine Advocate): "Bottled in February this year, the 2017 Marienburg Fahrlay Reserve opens with a very clear, refined and elegant, flinty and yeasty bouquet that reveals concentrated white and yellow fruit and very fine sate aromas. Full-bodied and rich yet elegant on the palate, this is a powerful and dense, very concentrated and sustainable Riesling with a creamy texture and fine tannins. It is big but not bold and is not as precise and crystalline as the regular Fahrlay used to be. The wine should develop more definition and class with aeration and certainly with bottle age. Tasted at the domain in September 2020. Drink: 2024-2040. (Oct 2020)"

95 points Mosel Fine Wines: "AP: 07 20. The 2017er Marienburg Fahrlay Réserve, as it is referred to on the main part of the label, was fermented spontaneously in traditional oak casks with fruit harvested on a blue slate sector of the Marienburg vineyard and was left on its gross lees for 24 months before being bottled (hence the late AP number). It offers a quite subtle nose made of melon, whipped cream, grapefruit zest, earthy spices, pear, licorice, and greengage. The wine is gorgeously precise and full of grip on the palate and leaves a beautiful tension between herb-infused lemon and melon in the long and superbly precise finish. The after-taste is animating, precise, and hugely complex. This gorgeous dry wine is simply superb! 2022-2032. (Oct 2020)"