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Bottle of Nikolaihof, Gruner Veltliner Im Weingebirge Smaragd, 2019 - White Wine - Flatiron Wines & Spirits - New York

Nikolaihof, Gruner Veltliner Im Weingebirge Smaragd, 2019

White Wine from Wachau, Austria
by Nikolaihof

$77.99

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You're drinking from Europe's oldest continually-operating vineyard—a site documented since 470 AD in a UNESCO valley. The tower beneath Nikolaihof dates to 63 BC. But history doesn't make wine; obsession does. The Saahs family has been biodynamic since 1971, following lunar cycles and working without chemicals while others talked. The Smaragd tier (Wachau's highest) requires 12.5% minimum alcohol—this vintage hits that mark with flinty stone fruits, honey, and herbs that taste like you're biting into the vineyard's limestone. Three years in massive Austrian oak casks (not French barrels—an entirely different language). The minerality never turns brittle.

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Nikolaihof is a trailblazing traditionalist: Biodynamic since 1971, its written winemaking history goes all the way back the monks who farmed there in the 5th Century (no, there’s no missing digit there). Today the family still practices an integrated farming like the monks did, involving farms without herbicides, pesticides or artificial sprays, making the wine with natural fermentations and ancient Austrian oak in their 700 year old cellar.

Details

  • Grape Variety

    Gruner Veltliner

  • Vintage

    2019

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied