Emmerich Knoll Gruner Veltliner Smaragd Ried Kreutles 2023 Wheat The resulting style is restrained

The resulting style is restrained and structured rather than overtly fruit-driven

farmed organically and without systemic products to rebuild microbiome health and preserve aromatic detail

The Granite Lake site's elevation buffered the extremes more than the valley floor

16-hectare parcel within Charmes-Chambertin

Emmerich Knoll Gruner Veltliner Smaragd Ried Kreutles 2023 Wheat The resulting style is restrainedThe Land Ried Kreutles sits near the village of Unterloiben, in the heart of Austria's Wachau along a dramatic bend of the Danube. This is a south facing parcel low on the slope, where deep sandy loess, dropped by ancient winds, sits over gneiss eroded out of the Alps by glaciers. That combination of warm, well drained loess and hard primary rock is ideal for Grner Veltliner, and the continental Wachau climate, hot days and sharply cooler nights off