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Herbert Zillinger

I last met with Herbert and Carmen Zillinger at the 2016 VieVinum, and although I didn’t taste quite all of their estate’s latest releases, my impression of this couple as among the most conscientious and imaginative in the Weinviertel was strongly reinforced. Few growers I have met are more conscientiously concerned with maximizing flavor while minimizing alcohol, and despite summer heat and drought, by September 11, 2015, they had ripe flavors at modest must weights and started picking. Harvest continued in fits and starts until mid-October. “To avoid acid deficiency, excessive alcohol or simply one-dimensional wines from a seemingly uncomplicated vintage like 2015 requires careful attention to viticultural detail throughout the growing season,” opined Herbert Zillinger, and his approach to canopy management and cover crops certainly seems to be paying off. (For details concerning this estate’s vineyards, practices and recent history, readers are invited to consult the extended introduction to my report on its 2014s.)

From Austria’s 2015 Rieslings & Grüner Veltliners: Ripe & Ready (Feb 2017) by David Schildknecht

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2015 Grüner Veltliner Neuland

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