1995 Nikolaihof Riesling Vinothek

JancisRobinson.com

• By Julia Harding, MW
  2/4/2014, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)

  (Nikolaihof, Vinothek Riesling Wachau White) Subscribe to see review text.

• By Jancis Robinson, MW
  6/11/2013, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)

  (Nikolaihof, Vinothek Riesling Wachau White) Subscribe to see review text.

• By Richard Hemming, MW
  2/5/2013, (See more on JancisRobinson.com...)

  (Nikolaihof, Vinothek Riesling Wachau White) Subscribe to see review text.

RJonWine.com

• By Richard Jennings
  1/24/2013, (See more on RJonWine.com...) 91 points

  (Nikolaihof Riesling Vinothek) Light yellow color; aromatic, petrol, lettuce nose; petrol, lettuce, leesy, mineral palate; medium-plus finish

Terry Theise Estate Selections

• By Terry Theise
  2012 Austrian Catalog, 6/1/2012, (See more on Terry Theise Estate Selections...)

  (Nikolaihof Riesling "Vinothek") ($163.00) First came the 1990 Riesling, then the 1991 GV, then the 1993 GV, each of them as beautiful and soulful as wine could ever be. And now this. It’s just 12.5% alcohol. This tender wine has been alone so long, it’s almost forgotten how to speak in language — so it sings. All it does is sing. You want to speak of its noble oxidation but you get caught in the sultry web of its amazing floweriness and pure vetiver. It actually, after all these years in cask, needs oxygen. Your sensual-analytical skills don’t help you here. Put them away. Quiet down, all the way down. You can enter the house, they’ve left the door unlocked. But once inside, the rooms are dim. You find your way by an instinct you didn’t know you had. You listen as you never did before. And you are given back to yourself, a strange new person, swimming in beauty and as supple as a child, pensive and amazed. <psssssssssssssst!>... I have just a few bottles of an astonishing 1999 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd, bottle-aged, and it’s a +++ quality wine, juicy-greeny-salty and fabulously complex-ly floral. Not cheap, but who’s worth it if not you? + + +

• By Terry Theise
  2012 Austrian Catalog, 6/1/2012, (See more on Terry Theise Estate Selections...)

  (Nikolaihof Riesling "Vinothek") ($341.00) First came the 1990 Riesling, then the 1991 GV, then the 1993 GV, each of them as beautiful and soulful as wine could ever be. And now this. It’s just 12.5% alcohol. This tender wine has been alone so long, it’s almost forgotten how to speak in language — so it sings. All it does is sing. You want to speak of its noble oxidation but you get caught in the sultry web of its amazing floweriness and pure vetiver. It actually, after all these years in cask, needs oxygen. Your sensual-analytical skills don’t help you here. Put them away. Quiet down, all the way down. You can enter the house, they’ve left the door unlocked. But once inside, the rooms are dim. You find your way by an instinct you didn’t know you had. You listen as you never did before. And you are given back to yourself, a strange new person, swimming in beauty and as supple as a child, pensive and amazed. <psssssssssssssst!>... I have just a few bottles of an astonishing 1999 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd, bottle-aged, and it’s a +++ quality wine, juicy-greeny-salty and fabulously complex-ly floral. Not cheap, but who’s worth it if not you? + + +