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    5
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    1
  • Decanting time

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  • When to drink

    2020-2035

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The Story

Since 1988 they produce nearly every year a Vinothekfüllung of Grüner Veltliner, which has been accompanied by a Riesling since 2000. Both of the Vinothekfüllungen could be defined as dry Auslesen but sweet Auslesen and Prädikatswein also count among the Knolls’ repertoire, and one should certainly sample these essences. 

Annual production: 500 cases

Vinothekfüllung bottling combines selected fruit from their Kreutles, Loibenberg, and Ke...

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The 2019 vintage in the Wachau is widely regarded as one of the greatest of the decade. A cool spring and a warm, brilliantly dry summer led to slow, ideal ripening, preserving acidity while allowing full aromatic development. Harvest conditions were excellent—clean fruit, perfect phenolic maturity, and lower-than-normal yields, resulting in wines of impressive concentration, tremendous balance, and exceptional aging potential.

For Knoll, 2019 stands as a reference point: powerful, mineral, and profoundly structured—especially for the Vinothekfüllung, a late-release selection from the estate’s finest, most age-worthy barrels.


The Knoll Riesling Vinothekfüllung 2019 is an extraordinary wine—deep, taut, and intensely mineral, with a grandeur that unfolds slowly but majestically in the glass.

The nose opens with magnificent precision: ripe peach, Mirabelle plum, lime oil, and white nectarine, wrapped in a crystalline halo of acacia blossom, jasmine, and verbena. Beneath the fruit lies the unmistakable Wachau core—wet slate, crushed rock, flint, smoke, and warm herbs—a complex mineral signature that intensifies with air. Subtle hints of honeycomb, chamomile, and candle wax foreshadow the wine’s future evolution.

On the palate, the wine is powerful yet sharply defined, a study in tension. The attack is vibrant, driven by laser-like acidity, before broadening into layers of white peach, lime zest, apricot skin, and yellow plum. The texture is both rich and refined—dense, mouthcoating, and almost oily—yet lifted by a nerve of pure mineral electricity.

Notes of smoked stone, fennel seed, white pepper, and savory herbs appear across the mid-palate, carried by a profound saline undertow. The finish is astonishingly long, resonant, and impeccably balanced, echoing citrus oil, stone fruit, and crushed rock for minutes.

A monumental Vinothekfüllung—pure, structured, and deeply expressive, combining the power of the Wachau with a Burgundian sense of shape and precision. Beautiful now with extended aeration, but it will evolve spectacularly over the next 20–30+ years, gaining complexity, spice, and honeyed depth.


  • 97p

Bright yellow-green with silver reflexes. Fine savoury notes on the nose with apricot and pineapple and candied orange zest in the background. Complex, mango fruit, tangerine zest, lively acidity, multilayered and long. Multi-faceted food wine with certain ageing potential.

  • 98p
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Origin

Unter-Loiben, Wachau

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