2009 Riesling Steinhaus, Hiedler

2009 Riesling Steinhaus, Hiedler

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The Steinhaus vineyard where this wine takes its grapes is situated North of Langenlois with very small and narrow terraces. Fermentation and maturation 100% in stainless steel, with Residual sugar at 5.2g/litre. This medium bodied Riesling produced from vines that average 15 years of age, contribute to the powerful fruit intensity of stonefruit and gosseberries. This is a wine that expresses beautiful minerality, with hints of gun flint and lemon on the finish, which is supported with a crisp acidity.

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Anthony Rose
all lemon and lime-like minerality, with a superb Austrian counterpart in a zingy dry 2009 Riesling Steinhaus, Hiedler.
Anthony Rose - The Independent.co.uk - Saturday 8, December 2012. Read more

About this WINE

Weingut Hiedler

Weingut Hiedler

Weingut Hiedler is owned and run by husband and wife team, Ludwig Hiedler and Maria Angeles Hiedler-Bustos. It is a 15-hectare estate situated in the prime quality Austrian vine growing territory at Langenlois/Kamptal.

The ancient tanning town of Langenlois close to the Danube, has been the home of the Hiedlers since 1853. The current generation is made up of Ludwig and his charming Spanish wife Maria-Angeles, whose wines combine Teutonic rigour and Mediterranean artistry to great effect. Their winery is now one of the leading names in Kamptal, their wines perfectly expressing all that is great about Austrian wine. They are equally at home with Riesling and Grüner Veltliner and have built an enviable reputation for expertise with both varieties

The vineyards are cultivated using lutte raisonnée  i.e. green and straw covering between rows, fertilisation with compost and manure, no herbicide usage. The harvest is done manually with three passes through the vineyard, with the carefully selected grapes being brought to the winery in small tubs. The grapes are fermented slowly and the wines are then matured in steel tanks or acacia barrels.

The Hiedler estate is a member of the Traditionsweinguter of Austria.

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Riesling

Riesling

Riesling's twin peaks are its intense perfume and its piercing crisp acidity which it manages to retain even at high ripeness levels.

In Germany, Riesling constitutes around 20% of total plantings, yet it is responsible for all its greatest wines. It is planted widely on well-drained, south-facing slate-rich slopes, with the greatest wines coming from the best slopes in the best villages. It produces delicate, racy, nervy and stylish wines that cover a wide spectrum of flavours from steely and bone dry with beautifully scented fruits of apples,apricots, and sometimes peaches, through to the exotically sweet flavours of the great sweet wines.

It is also an important variety in Alsace where it produces slightly earthier, weightier and fuller wines than in Germany. The dry Rieslings can be austere and steely with hints of honey while the Vendages Tardives and Sélection de Grains Nobles are some of the greatest sweet wines in the world.

It is thanks to the New World that Riesling is enjoying a marked renaissance. In Australia the grape has developed a formidable reputation, delivering lime-sherbet fireworks amid the continental climate of Clare Valley an hour's drive north of Adelaide, while Barossa's Eden Valley is cooler still, producing restrained stony lime examples from the elevated granitic landscape; Tasmania is fast becoming their third Riesling mine, combining cool temperatures with high UV levels to deliver stunning prototypes.

New Zealand shares a similar climate, with Riesling and Pinot Gris neck to neck in their bid to be the next big thing after Sauvignon Blanc; perfectly suited is the South Island's Central Otago, with its granitic soils and continental climate, and the pebbly Brightwater area near Nelson. While Australia's Rieslings tend to be full-bodied & dry, the Kiwis are more inclined to be lighter bodied, more ethereal and sometimes off-dry; Alsace plays Mosel if you like.

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