2007 Emmerich Knoll Grüner Veltliner Vinothekfüllung Smaragd

Emmerich Knoll

Austria / Wachau / Emmerich Knoll

Viticulturist: Knoll family
Location: Wachau/ Unter-Loiben
Elevation/ Altitude: 240 – 350 m
Exposition: from the foot of the mountain and terraced vineyards with southern exposition
Soil type: different soils from all Grüner Veltliner single vineyards
Methods of training: modified Moser Training System
Density of planting: different density (Kreutles, Loibenberg, Kellerberg)
Harvesting: By hand; selective harvest; green harvest if necessary
VINIFICATION
Pre-fermentation: no destemming, skin contact, no carbonic maceration, pneumatic press
Yeast: cultured and natural yeast
Fermentation vessel size & material: cask and stainless steel tank from 500 to 5,000 litres depending on batch quantity
Fermentation length & temperature: 5- 15 days, 23 - 26 degrees
ELEVAGE/ MATURATION
Lees ageing: 6 - 8 months, no bâtonnage
Racking: twice
FINISHING
Clarification/Filtration: Filtration
Closure: natural cork

Peter Moser

Vinous Media

94 points

Medium yellow-green. Complex, lightly botrytized bouquet of ripe, honey-drizzled apple, tobacco and black bread. Juicy in the mouth, with a sweet impression of extract. Despite its tremendous concentration, this wine is by no means a muscular brute, but rather makes a thoroughly athletic impression. Abundant minerals and tobacco linger on the finish. Although quite approachable, this should continue to evolve positively in bottle over the next five years and age easily until 2022.

David Schildknecht

Wine Advocate

90-91+ points

Knoll’s 2007 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Vinothekfüllung – which originates in Kreutles, Loibneberg and Kellerberg – features the rhubarb and beet that are so common this vintage, along with lentil, roasted red pepper, and green herbs. At once voluminous and energetic, this wine really gains steam as it crosses the palate, exhibiting a striking depth of ore-like, pungent, peaty, peppery minerality that impinges with tactile intensity. It lacks the sweetness of fruit possessed by this year’s Schutt and Loibenberg, but sheer force may well make this (as the Knolls anticipate) the better keeper, perhaps worth holding a decade or more.

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About Emmerich Knoll

"This winery has produced so many cult wines over the last decades that it would not be a problem to fill an entire book with their tasting notes." So goes the Falstaff Ultimate Wine Guide's entry on Knoll, pronounced with a K. The winery uses exclusively old oak foudres and implements a winemaking philosophy that places varietal site expression at the forefront. Emmerich Knoll senior is a thoughtful, quiet man; the opposite of Emmerich junior, cosmopolitan and modern in his approach. The Knolls have holdings in all the best sites, as exemplified by their success in the now infamous UK tasting where an aged Knoll Grüner beat a field of Grand Cru white Burgundies. The unmistakable labels bearing the image of Saint Urban, the patron saint of winegrowing, are a reminder that tradition is the watchword here. But what isn’t so obvious is that Emmerich Knoll’s wines are sheer joy to drink — now or far into the future.

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