Wines from Niederösterreich

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Weinrieder 2003 Schneiderberg Eiswein Riesling (Niederösterreich)

Cellar Selection

Price $70

What a beautiful wine, with honey, perfumes, acidity and delicate fruit. It is certainly ripe, with tropical fruits and a pure citric streak. But more than the parts is the sum: The acidity promises long bottle aging, but the pleasure is also there now. Treasure this wine—none was produced in 2004 or in 2005. — R.V. (10/1/2006)

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Bründlmayer 2009 Steinmassel Trockenbeerenauslese Riesling (Niederösterreich)

Cellar Selection

Always the star of sweet wines, this TBA Riesling preserves so much freshness while also being packed with honeyed, ripe apricot and mango fruits. It is the acidity along with the dry botrytis that make the wine so special and offer considerable aging potential— give it seven years or more. — R.V. (12/15/2011)

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Bründlmayer 2009 Kammerner Lamm Trockenbeerenauslese Grüner Veltliner (Niederösterreich)

Superbly rich and sweet, this beautifully honeyed wine has peach and orange marmalade with pineapple acidity. It’s a wine of concentration, great richness, the sweetness layered with a dry botrytis character. Age for many years. — R.V. (12/15/2011)

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Weinrieder 2006 Schneiderberg Eiswein Riesling (Niederösterreich)

Price $89

The first vintage of this great wine since 2003, this remains a wonderful example of the almost ethereal character of cooler climate eiswein (ice wine). The wine is certainly honeyed, but the freshness, the lightness, the poise, are just as important. If you can resist, age this wine for at least 5 years. — R.V. (11/15/2008)

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Weinrieder 2004 Alte Reben Grüner Veltliner (Niederösterreich)

Editors' Choice

Price $24

From 50-year-old vines, harvested at the end of November, this wine has definite late-harvest richness and intensity of flavor. Fruit tastes are less obvious than the perfumes, the flavors of almonds and complexity, what Friedrich Rieder calls a wine with character. — R.V. (10/1/2006)

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Weinrieder 2005 Hölzler Welschriesling Eiswein (Niederösterreich)

Price $35

This intensely sweet wine, almost like nectar, is so fresh and poised, that it is both overwhelming and refreshing. Honey marches with acidity, smokiness and perfumed fruit. — R.V. (10/1/2006)

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R&A Pfaffl 2005 Goldjoch Grüner Veltliner (Niederösterreich)

This powerful, intense, wood-aged Grüner Veltliner is Pfaffl’s finest expression of the grape. It is opulent, rich, powerful, but intensely structured, the wood lending a counterpoint to the fresh acidity and pepper characters of the grape. — R.V. (8/1/2007)

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Nigl 2008 Trockenbeerenauslese Grüner Veltliner (Niederösterreich)

Price $43

A wonderful viscous texture underlies a wine that is beautifully balanced between sweetness and crispness. The honeyed flavors go with ripe yellow nectarines and the wine glides around the mouth. Delicious now, but it will surely age. Screwcap. — R.V. (10/1/2010)

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