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  1. Rosi Schuster Saint Laurent 2022
    Rosi Schuster Saint Laurent 2022
    Brimming with red-cherry fruit and joyful freshness. Wonderful interplay of extremely fresh fruit, fine tannins and lively acidity on the barely medium-bodied palate. Excellent balance at the delicate and animating, long finish. Amazing for just 11% alcohol! From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. STUART PIGOTT, JamesSuckling.com

    Sankt Laurent is a naturally reductive grape variety and as such Hannes has greatly reduced the time this ‘entry’ to the Sankt Laurent wines of the estate spends on skins in order to preserve the vibrancy of this native variety that is directly related to Pinot Noir (recent DNA analysis suggest it is the offspring of Pinot Noir and potentially Savagnin).

    Spending 5-8 days on skins during fermentation in tank before being aged in a mixture of 2/3 big old casks & 1/3 inox, this is a wonderfully fresh, vibrant and aromatic expression of Sankt Laurent that is built for a chill before drinking with gusto. Hannes notes that 2022 was a great vintage for Sankt Laurent and if this release is anything to go on we cannot wait to see the old vine Village releases when they are bottled a little further down the line
    2022
    Austria
    357
    $51.00
  2. Rosi Schuster Blaufrankisch 2021
    Rosi Schuster Blaufrankisch 2021
    What an exciting interplay between black-forest berry aromas and balsamic character. Astonishing concentration for an entry-level wine and the tannins are really fine, too. Focused, long and straight finish with very positive firmness. Plenty of mineral, cardamon and clove complexity is married to very sophisticated freshness. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. (94) STUART PIGOTT jamessuckling.com.

    A blend of grapes from parcels located in Rust, Müllendorf & Zagersdorf with the main backbone coming from vineyards found close to the winery in Sankt Margarethen with the idea being to represent the tapestry of villages, vineyards & soils of the Burgenland. Handpicked, naturally fermented & matured in large format old oak for around 12-14 months before bottling un-fined and un-filtered.
    2021
    Austria
    357
  3. Emmerich Knoll Gruner Veltliner Loibner Federspiel 2023
    Emmerich Knoll Gruner Veltliner Loibner Federspiel 2023
    Ripe grapefruit, apple, tarragon, celery and a dusting of white pepper. It’s fleshy and ripe, apple and stone fruit, still that zesty citrus thing, a bit waxy, some umami characters, tangerine and mint. Love
    the crushed rock texture, some kohlrabi and spice, with a juicy and gently bitter finish of excellent
    length. Yum. Outstanding. GARY WALSH, the wine front

    This medium-bodied gruner veltliner has a restrained ripeness and an elegant harmony of Mirabelle plum, white pepper and tarragon aromas. Moderate acidity and just a touch of tannins in the very well-balanced finish. STUART PIGOTT, jamessuckling.com
    2023
    Gruner Veltliner
    Austria
    501
  4. Hiedler Gaisberg Riesling 2021
    Hiedler Gaisberg Riesling 2021

    Sourced from two terraces and predominantly rooting in a rocky subsoil of paragneiss, Hiedler's 2021 Ried Gaisberg 1ÖTW Riesling is dense and spicy on the nose, showing ripe and concentrated bright fruit with subtle earthy notes. Round and elegant on the palate, with juicy richness, well-integrated mineral acidity and persistent ripe fruit flavors on the salty, grippy finish, this is still a young Gaisberg but with promising potential. 13% stated alcohol. Natural cork. STEPHAN RHEINHARDT, vinous.com 

    Anyone who thinks that dry riesling is always lean and austere should dive into this deep pool of ripe peach and apricot to discover the grape's sensual side. Generous and creamy, but without any sense of weight, this combines ripeness with zesty freshness at the bright finish. Drink or hold. STUART PIGOTT

    Gaisberg is often spectral, as if its flavors were placed in your hands by a ghost dressed as a bride. Part of that is present here, but there's also a quantum concentration of mineral, catapulted upward by a slingshot of acidity. The wine is so amazing it borders on the implausible.

    The grip and the mere impact on the physical palate are impossible to resist. Yet there a higher octave of flavor that wisps up into the air like the vapors from frozen nitrogen. It's a concatenation of lemons and freesia; it alludes to basmati; it alludes, hauntingly, to white peaches and to blueberries, part of an incipience of sweetness that turns it from prose into music.

    It's introverted but passionate, classical but not stodgy, and it is in every way wonderful. It almost isn't "Riesling" any more. It's just Gaisberg; I know it from Gobelsburg and Hirsch, and this site is quite particular, spectral and subtle; it whispers its strange tongue and you feel an opiate tingle - What is this wine doing to me? It smells a little like Champagne, this cool high chiming, this cryptic bliss. It is a very rare wine, that delivers as many poignant questions as this one does. TERRY THEISE

    2015
    Riesling
    Austria
    413
  5. Schloss Gobelsburg Gaisberg Riesling 2021
    Schloss Gobelsburg Gaisberg Riesling 2021

    The 2021 Riesling Ried Gaisberg is on gneiss, schist and amphibolite.
    Crushed ivy and citrus leaf overlay an almost savory, salty notion of wet earth. The palate is rounded and juicy-almost bouncy with lively energy. Bright, lemon-fringed stone fruit notes skip away in such a joyful fashion that the underlying stony seriousness is almost skipped over. In coming years, the stoniness will gain the upper hand, but, for now, the playfulness of these aromas-leafy top notes and citric charm-quite rightly enjoy the limelight. This is lovely and slender, with a serious, stony, cool core and a beautifully long finish. (Bone-dry) ANNE KREBIEHL MW, wineadvocate.com

    Delightfully blatantly aromatic - I mean three-feet-from-the-glass aromatic. Did I mention it also smells marvelous?…This wine, while snappy and bracing in the '21 "type," is a rare success in the everyday echelon… The wine leads with verbena, lemon balm and hyssop; it's more herbal than precisely mineral… It shows a sort of macro-terroir of Kamptal - of Austria overall, really - and while the weight and outlines are sleek and cool, the flavors are purely Austrian… It's another wine that held steady over the days…It's also the kind of wine I call "coniferous," (or fir when I'm being literal and Christmas Tree when I'm being colorful…) TERRY THEISE

    The Riesling terraces are among the oldest vineyards cultivated by Schloss Gobelsburg. Complex aromas of ripe stone fruit and toast. A rich and powerful spice is outlined with just enough fruit and stone to carry it all the way home. Lively, shaping acidity and delicate citrus finish.  PAULA SIDORE, jancisrobinson.com

     

    2023
    Riesling
    Austria
    501
  6. Hiedler Zobing Ried Heiligenstein 1ÖTW Riesling 2020
    Hiedler Zobing Ried Heiligenstein 1ÖTW Riesling 2020

    The 2020 Zöbing Ried Heiligenstein 1ÖTW Riesling is clear and crystalline on the nose yet initially rather discreet in its fruit expression. Intense, ripe apricot aromas emerge form the glass after a while. Crystalline, refined and elegant on the palate this, is a powerful, tight and firmly structured Heiligenstein that is still a bit caged and needs aeration or years to open up, refine and shine. The fruit is stewed and the texture accordingly rich and fleshy, whereas the finish remains crystalline, piquant and precise. This should be another gorgeous Heiligenstein in 10 years but in the Hiedler style. STEPHAN RHEINHARDT, vinous.com

    2020
    Riesling
    Austria
    413
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