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Item Number: 6079

UPC: 9008519111294

Country: Austria
Region: Lower Austria Sub Region: Wachau
Appellation/AVA: Wachau
Vintage: 2011
Grape(s): 100% Riesling
Type: Wine - White
Bottle Size: 750ml Pack: 12
Closure: Cork
Alc by Vol(%): 14.5
Residual Sugar(g/L): 5.5
Total Acidity: 5.9
Soil Type: Gneiss-based primary rock with Löss components
Elevation: 350-260 meters


Vineyards: Grapes from different vineyards at the foot of the mountain with southern exposition. 

Vinification: No destemming, skin contact, no carbonic maceration, pneumatic press, cultured and natural yeast, 5-15 day fermentation with no malolactic fermentation. 6-8 months aging on lees, racked twice. Filtrated and aged one month in bottle before release. 

Classification: “Smaragd” is a definition for the best and most valuable wines of the Wachau, it was first used for the vintage of the year 1986. Theses wines with a minimum must weight of 18.2°KMW and alcoholic content of 12,5vol.% mature only in the most sunniest regions and even there only in very good years. (KMW stands for Klosterneuburger Mostwaage and is a unit to define the amount of natural sugar in wine must.) In accordance to tradition they are fermented until the natural end of the process  and then, filled into bottles, are closed with long (at least 49mm) corks which carry the vintage date. Even after 25 or more years of proper storage one will have much enjoyment drinking them. Wines of the type “Smaragd” must not be sold before the 1st of May following the year of the harvest. This category characterizes an extraordinary specialty of Wachau's wine growing area and is object to strict quality checks.

Vinothekfüllung name means small wine shop or private cellar and is used to indicate which wine is best for aging by the Knolls. The name indicates wines that were produced from a selection of the estate's ripest, most concentrated fruit (this wine is not produced in poor or homogenous years). So it's sort of a reserve of the vineyards Kreutles, Loibenberg, and Kellerberg. In these vineyards, the fruit left to hang to become the material for Vinothekfullung is in the south facing portions of the vineyards as they wind and careen around the terraces above Loiben.