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Peter Malberg candidly revealed via photographs how his Riesling bunches in 2014 were too shot through with low-level botrytis for meticulous selection to have been a realistic option. (Other photos show bunches on neighbors’ vines that are nearly black with blanketing fungus.) And as if it were not travail enough to have experienced mid-summer drought stress in vine rows that abut the stone walls of his narrow terraces, late summer hail, and the vintage’s prolonged deluges, Malberg also lost fruit to an invasion of voracious mice. Picking began on September 18, but due to his preference for freshness and low alcohol, Malberg picks earlier even in a normal year than any other Wachau grower save for the Nikolaihof. He cites the extremely low pHs of his Grüner Veltliner musts—whose total volume was down by around one-third—as having permitted him to employ his usual regimen of pre-fermentative skin contact, which in turn mitigated those pHs. (As explained more thoroughly in my coverage of his 2013s, I have agreed at Malberg’s request to refrain from accompanying my reviews of his wines with scores.)

From Austria 2014: A Catastrophe? Not Qualitatively! (Feb 2016) by David Schildknecht

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2014 Grüner Veltliner Liebedich

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2014 Grüner Veltliner Hochrain

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2014 Grüner Veltliner Weitenberg

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2014 Riesling Schöner

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