Refreshingly built, with crisp charm and lovely flavours of grapefruit and citrus, fresh acidity, and a juicy, minerally finish. Ideal for hors d’oeuvres, salads and sushi.
Nikolaihof is the oldest wine estate in Austria and credited with being the first biodynamic estate in the world. Herbal-led, this Grüner streams with creamy lees, flax, hay and mineral salts throughout. All the cushion of this amply textured Wachau white is cut with stony minerality, and streams with an oily sheen. Generous spicy white pepper and salts linger on the finish. Let this open up and stretch its legs before you enjoy.
Clear pale coppery-pink. Faint nose of strawberry and grenadine. Medium-bodied with more strawberry and cranberry flavours than the nose promises. Drink up.
Reddish amber tinged in the glass with toasty, nutty and smoky aromas, initial fruity sweetness then burnt roasted character, followed by mellow fruit cake flavour, rich creaminess and finishing with emphatic bitterness. A characterful, complex brew.
Deep ruby colour with a lifted bouquet of cherry and vanilla oak; medium-bodied, well-extracted cherry and red berry flavours with lively acidity and a firm structure.
Pinot Blanc (85%) fermented for 3 weeks followed by 2 months on “light” lees, then blended with 15% Müller-Thurgau. Floral and stone-fruit aromas precede a gently citrus palate with peach-pit and tropical notes and some zesty peel in the finish.
This light Belgian style is perhaps more sophisticated than a traditional Grisette. On the nose, a significant amount of drying barnyard brettanomyces, almost filtered through ripe plum. The spiciness of that yeast characteristic persists all the way through to the dry finish with a lemon zest peak in the mid palate bolstered by a spiky carbonic attack.