Ried Rosengartel Nussberg Riesling
by Wieninger

A rather cooler winter was followed by a very mild March, which led to a dangerous early sprouting. However, the April was below average cool, so the expulsion was very slow, unfortunately again with slight frost damage in the sensitive varieties Chardonnay and Zweigelt, but significantly lower than in the frosty year 2016. The first use of burning straw bales helped here certainly the damage in To keep borders. May and also June showed an early summer friendliness and ensured a trouble-free flowering in the first half of June. The precipitation was rare and little extensive and so we came in a rather hot summer with little rain. Occasional thunderstorms saved the vines through the summer, which goes down in history as the third hottest since records began. An early start of harvesting in the first days of September was necessary to maintain the acidity and freshness of the wines, because this was particularly important to us. September, however, was unusually cold with some heavy rainfall, which fortunately had a very positive effect on the vines, as well as on the quality of the grapes. The harvest was thus pulled apart much more and ended in mid-October with very high quality both in white wine, as well as red wine, lighter wines, as well as the rich layered wines. The vintage 2016 shines with intense fruit, ripe acidity and is not as lush as expected due to the earlier harvest, but very elegant with lots of drinking pleasure.