2015 Emmerich Knoll Riesling Federspiel

Emmerich Knoll

Austria / Wachau / Emmerich Knoll

Viticulturist: Knoll family
Location: Wachau/ Unter-Loiben
Elevation/ Altitude: 220m
Exposition: flat land and foot of the mountain
Soil type: alluvial and sandy Löss
Methods of training: modified Moser training System
Density of planting: 3,500 - 4,000 per hectare / 2.40 – 2.80m row spacing
Harvesting: By hand; selective harvest; rarely green harvest
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- 10 days, 20 -22 degrees
ELEVAGE/ MATURATION
Lees ageing: 3 months, no bâtonnage
Racking: twice
FINISHING
Clarification/ Filtration: filtration
Closure: natural cork

June, 2016

Stephan Reinhardt

Wine Advocate

89 points

The 2015 Loibner Riesling Federspiel is lovely aromatic and ripe on the elegant and very distinguished nose (as if it were a Muskateller). Medium-bodied, round and piquant this is an expressive, salty and stimulating Riesling that's just perfect to drink today. With 12.5% alcohol, this wine is on the upper level of the light Federspiel category. A beauty that would be a cash cow in any restaurant that offers it by the glass. Drink it young, but calculate a bottle per person.

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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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