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“There was still plenty of work to do,” said Martin Mittelbach of the allegedly easy 2015 growing season, “as one had to adjust yields carefully to conditions, and at picking there was some botrytis.” As cited in my introduction to this report, Mittelbach considers irrigation to have been critical to success. “Without that,” he suggested, “the vines couldn’t have held up under a decent crop load. And you don’t want to cut back the crop too much or you’re going to end up with too much alcohol.” He began picking on September 23 and finished at the end of October. Mittelbach emphasizes that he had room to play around this year with varying lengths of pre-fermentative skin contact depending on the condition of fruit and his intuitions about those wines that could benefit from enhanced structure and cut. That consideration became potentially critical in retrospect, since most bottlings reflect certain lots having undergone malolactic transformation, generally softening the impact of an already generously fruity vintage character. An exception to that fruity generosity was the sole Riesling Federspiel I tasted, which displayed detached tartness and awkward astringency. (For details concerning this estate’s vineyards, practices and recent history, readers are invited to consult the extended introduction to my report on its 2013s.)

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

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2015 Grüner Veltliner Federspiel Frauenweingarten

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