Matt Sterr

9.5

Peach 🍑 candy. Apricot marmalade. Tropical and mineral notes. Well integrated acids. A rich and velvety palate and once again a long, mouthwatering finish. World class. — 7 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.3

Rich, unctuous and concentrated dry Riesling, but - kudos to the 2008 acidity - by no means flabby. Great tension, slatey minerals and deep orange fruit notes (tangerine, peach and guave). A very delicate hint of savoury crustaceans really adds to the complexity! Beautiful wine. — 8 years ago

Jeroen Koenen

9.4

Light golden colour. Mature Riesling nose. Firne, slate, hyacinth, orange blossom, citrus zest and oriental spices leap out of the glass.
On the palate this is unusually (for the Mosel and for the vintage as well) rich, concentrated, almost fatty in mouthfeel. Yet it remains in balance remarkably well. Very floral and tropical in its aromatics, this is not your typical dry Mosel wine. Actually, it's not legally trocken, more a feinherb kind of wine. Busch's wines only resemble those of Heymann Löwenstein in style; I see some parallels in their concentration, balance, richness, spicyness, yes uniqueness. What a gorgeous wine....!

This year this wine had 2 versions. One barrel fermented to a Trocken wine and was labelled "Falkenlay GG". The second barrel stopped earlier so a Feinherb remained. This was labelled "Falkenlay (Erste Lage)". — 8 years ago

Willem Booij

9.2

A bit more closed then the B but how strange is it? The wines are now for four weeks in the bottle — 9 years ago

Francis Huicq

9.3

Pinot Noir. A beautiful discovery here. Individual, mineral and straight in style. Riesling varietal character doesn't come through obviously. Aromatically evoking more Muscat Blanc a petits grains with notes of rose, preserved orange, musk and spices. The floral tone is the link leading towards Riesling. Mid palate onwards the slatey, mineral and floral/wooded notes take over revealing the greatness of Riesling. — 10 years ago

John Van Trijp

9.4

Auslese 1997 — 10 years ago

Don Simon

9.3

Mit das beste in 2017. Grandios. — 7 years ago

with FCK

Jörgen Lindström Carlvik

Owner, Brix Wine Consultants

9.2

Beautifully balanced and light on its feet. Has great mid-palate fruit, soft oakiness and obvious slatey minerality. A very serious PN! — 8 years ago

Benjamin Hickey

9.5

Dry but so rich and deep, flinty, touch of petroleum. Very lively. — 8 years ago

Gigi Pan

9.2

Big fan of Riesling. Paring with prawn marinated in rice vinegar. — 8 years ago

with Alan

G G

9.9

Has to be the best German wine I have ever tasted... Perfection of sweet and acid... — 9 years ago

Alon Yitzhaki

9.1

Wow from a poor year! Must try from a good year! — 10 years ago

Benjamin Parniuk

9.3

So goddamn fresh. Nothing bruised about this. Deceptively sweet. Did not call this as Mosel. — 10 years ago

with bryn and Rachel

Petra Thieriot

Owner/Importer Dee Vine Wines

10

Another reason why we think 1997 was THE vintage of the '90s! — 11 years ago

with Dade, Manuela and 1 other

Michael Solway

9.3

Misidentified by Delectable; KIrchberg is a Grosse Lage. — 8 years ago

Jiga Hitorn

9.3

Kinda everything you want from a Mosel — 8 years ago

with Charlie

John Van Trijp

9.9

Auction Long Gold Capsule. Woooow! Very Creamy! Creamy....Did I say creamy? White Chocolate allllllllll the way! Perfect balance. This is not an auslese.....this is Beerenauslese or Trockenbeerenauslese! 99+/100 — 8 years ago

Wojciech Bońkowski

Bloger bonkowshi.me

9.8

Greatartsy! (my translation of the apt German term “grossartig.”) — 9 years ago

jarred gild

Head Wine Buyer Western Market

9.8

the superstar of last weekend's wine party. one of my all time favorites, in fact. — 9 years ago

with Personne and Mudgie's

Alon Yitzhaki

8.9

Wery nice . Good trong nose hints of sweet hony and melon. Palet has good acidity and sweetnes — 10 years ago

Colin Grimaud

8.9

Charming Riesling very interesting — 11 years ago