Weingut Edlmoser

Michael Edlmoser has since 1998 been farming his family’s vineyards in Mauer, a southern Vienna suburb on the edge of the Thermenregion, and hence much warmer thanks to Pannonian influence than are the more extensive, familiar, white wine-dominated Viennese vineyards in the city’s northwest near the Danube. Soils here are a colorful mixture of sandstone, schist and especially fossiliferous and dolomitic limestones. Edlmoser points out that his field blends reflect a traditional preference around Mauer for Riesling and the Burgundian varieties, in contrast to Vienna’s northwest, where Grüner Veltliner and the Traminer family played larger roles. On my recent visit with him, I tasted from vintage 2013 only those bottlings that he releases in the second year after harvest; and in my upcoming report on the 2014s, I’ll report for now only on those wines he releases earlier. Eventually, I hope to find the time to attend more closely to Edlmoser’s dauntingly tannic but not uninteresting reds, and to sample some whites that have enough bottle age to temper my vague intuitions about how these wines are likely to develop over time.

From 2013: A Great Vintage for Austrian Riesling and Grüner Veltliner (Nov 2015) by David Schildknecht

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