2019 Weingut Knoll Ried Loibenberg Loibner Riesling Federspiel

The Weingut Emmerich Knoll has been one of the absolute top of the Wachau and Austria for many years. The winery has been owned by the Knoll family since 1825 and has around 16 hectares of top vineyards in and around Unterloiben (including Schütt, Kreutles, Pfaffenberg, Loibnerberg and Kellerberg).

As the name suggests, dd wine comes from a vineyard on the Loibenberg. The large surface area and the large differences in height lead to a total of 4 official partial vineyards and a large number of small and different small vineyards. The location can be traced back to 1381, then known as "leub_n perig". The sandy-stony soil promotes drainage and facilitates root growth. The easily heatable soil also ensures that the vines germinate early in the spring.

The 2019 Ried Loibenberg Loibner Riesling is deep, intense and ripe on the nose, but also pure and fresh, with notes of crushed stone and tropical yellow stone fruit. Dense and intense on the palate, this is a full-bodied, concentrated and sustainably structured Loibenberg with great intensity, grip and mineral tension. The finish is very long, intense and quite powerful, still dominated by ripe fruit. The Loibenberg Riesling 2019 will improve even further with time and has a huge drinking window to 2060+. Suckling gives this wine 95/100 points and Parker 94+/100. In Parker's review, one writes: "......the 2019 Loibenberg Riesling will be a giant in about 10 years...... "