Riesling

Question 1

Smaragd Loibenberg Weingut Knoll 2020

Answer 1

shows notes of bright green apple, orange, lemon zest, and wet stones, leading to a zesty and long-lasting finish. I think its dry.

Question 2

1ÖTW ‘Ried Zöbinger Heiligenstein’, Bründlmayer 2021

Answer 2

Nose of white peach, licorice and tarragon with just a hint of exotic fruit. Ripe but very focused, medium-bodied palate, with mineral energy and lemon freshness driving the long finish.

Question 3

1ÖTW ‘Ried Gaisberg’, Weingut Hirsch (Kamptal, Austria)

Answer 3

Biodynamic

Whole bunch pressing, natural fermentation in stainless steel and large oak barrels, extended lees aging before bottling

crushed-stone character, but also incredibly beautiful fruit that exactly counterbalances the mineral acidity that drives the diamond-bright finish.

Question 4

Elsarner Brandstatt, peter veyder-malberg 2020

Question 5

Cuvee Collette Domaine Weinbach 2019

Answer 5

bright, offering a pretty range of peach skin, yellow apple, ground ginger and stony mineral flavors, with a vivid spine of mouthwatering acidity.

Question 6

Pfignstberg Grand Cru, Valentin Zusslin 2015

Answer 6

full-bodied, rich and silky on the palate, this is a monster Riesling with a tight, mineral structure and a long, intense and salty finish

Question 7

‘Vinothek’, Nikolaihof 2002

Answer 7

Aged for 16 years in 3,500 liter old oak casks

deep and complex on the elegant and spicy nose that doesn’t reveal any classic Riesling aromas but rather the coolish vintage (“flood vintage”) and the long elevage in a traditional 60-hectoliter foudre. Crystalline and refined on the palate this is an elegant highly complex and vital yet still firm and initially even tannic and astringent wine that needs lots of patience. 12.5% alcohol.

Question 8

Grosses Gewächs ‘Uhlen Roth Lay’, Heymann-Löwenstein

Answer 8

Combination of four plots, Southern orientation, 60 year old vines

Organically grown grapes, ripe peach, apple, citrus, backbone of acidity