Nikolaihof | Wachau | Vom Stein, Riesling Smaragd trocken | 2017 | 750ml | bio

Description

Product description for Nikolaihof Vom Stein, Riesling Smaragd trocken 2017 (bio)

Information about the wine

The Riesling grapes are grown on clay, loess, and Danube gravel.

Information about the aging

The wine is fermented exclusively with the grapes’ own natural yeast without the addition of sugar, enzymes, flavour enhancers, or pure yeasts. After 2.5 years of aging in large, old wooden barrels, it is bottled on a fruit day.

Colour

Bright and intense yellow with subtle lightening towards the rim.

Nose

The 2017 Riesling Smaragd Vom Stein exudes an intense aroma. The scent of yellow fruits such as apricot and mirabelle plum blends with lemon zest and lily of the valley oil. The aroma is animated by incredible freshness, intense minerality, and cool finesse.

Palate

On the palate, we encounter a wine that combines freshness and juicy fruit. Its minerality is extremely distinctive, and the fine tannins and long, intensely fruity finish are unparalleled. A mature wine full of expression and intensity.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 94

The Mautern 2017 Riesling Ried Vom Stein Smaragd offers a pure, refined and finely oxidative bouquet of bright, ripe fruits intermingled with smoky and saline terroir notes as well as some delicate oak. Round and intense on the palate, with fine, playful and persistently saline acidity, this is a full-bodied, dense and very elegant Riesling with striking intensity and finesse. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in October 2022.
Stephan Reinhardt

Vinous

Score: 94

The 2017 Riesling vom Stein Smaragd opens with a floral overtone alongside dried peach and waxy apple. The palate has immediate dimension, filling the mind with its cloud-like presence and smoothing itself like an airy blanket across the palate, all anchored in a sense of stoniness and fine, pure dried lemon peel. This is all smoothness and balm-like gentleness. A Riesling of texture, this finishes smooth, bone-dry, salty and waxy. (Bone-dry)
— Anne Krebiehl MW
Drinking window: 2023 – 2045
Review date: Feb 2024

Producer website: https://www.nikolaihof.at/en/home/