Variety: Riesling • Region: Wachau • Vineyard: Ried Im Weingebirge • Soil Type: Loess, loam, paragneiss rock • Fermentation & Élevage: Aged for 15 years in 3,500-liter old oak casks. Bottled in 2024
Info
Producer:
Vintage:
2008
Country:
Austria
Region:
Wachau
Appellation:
Wachau
Variety:
Riesling
Color:
White
Farming Practice:
Certified Biodynamic
Sizes Available
| Full Bottle | AT-NIK-27-08 | 6/750ml |
Resources
Press & Reviews
James Suckling
Score
99
Date
2025-10-06
"This pulls you in with aromas of honeysuckle, orange blossoms, cedar, vanilla bean and lemon meringue pie. So silky, creamy and elegant, with unbelievable freshness, it feels like a young wine. Concentrated at only 12.5% alcohol. Classy and subtle oak spices. Then the salty, stony minerality at the end reminds you what this is. Very long. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. Bottled in April 2024 after over 15 years in one large oak cask. Drink or hold."
Vinous
Score
95
Date
2025-06-12
"The 2008 Riesling Vinothek was bottled in April 2024 and is a current release. A soft sense of lanolin and creaminess defines the nose, edged by the gentlest citrus zestiness. The palate is superbly bright and very slender, carrying more of that lanolin character with the smoothest, slightest texture. Brightness, earthiness and luminosity are strangely combined in this elixir-like wine. Super slender, concentrated and quiet, it really goes under your skin."
REVIEWS FROM PAST VINTAGES
James Suckling
Score
98
Date
2018-12-20
Vinous
Score
97
Date
2024-02-01
"The 1997 Riesling Vinothek Fass Severin was bottled in February 2022 after almost 25 years in a 3,000-liter barrel, on whose headboard is a carving of Saint Severin"hence the name. (NB this is a different wine from a different site than the one previously released in 2014 as Vinothek 1997). A cooling sense of lemon and Mirabelle rises from the slightly waxy, slightly yeasty nose. All is subdued, and nothing is up-front. Concentration and linearity of lemon brightness is immediate on the palate. This is a pure, very ripe, intense Riesling of unusual freshness. It has a salty, waxy depth that draws you in but comes across as immensely youthful. This is so clean-cut, so hair-raising, so pristine"a wonderful depiction of Riesling's essential nature as a life force of freshness and inherent drive. Profound lemon freshness echoes long. (Bone-dry)"
Wine Advocate
Score
97
Date
2025-01-23
"Aged 27 years but bottled only in February 2022, the extraordinary 1997 Riesling Vinothek Fass Severin represents a truly great vintage of rare qualities in the Wachau and all along the Danube between Spitz and Vienna. Mainly sourced in the vineyards Im Weingebirge (amphibolite, loess and paragneiss) and Vom Stein (loess and Danube gravel) as well as from other vineyards in Mautern, the white-golden 1997 Vinothek Riesling is from a cask named Severin and is clear, fresh and savory on the deep and intense yet elegant and even in part leafy nose that shows coolish, mineral depth and even reveals some sweet saffron and vegetal or even greenish/nutty nuances just like acorns. Full-bodied, dense and very complex yet also vivacious and even frisky on the palate, this is a great, comparably lean rather than rich and powerful Riesling from the Nikolaihof whose Jura-like flor note is highly delicate and discreet and perfectly intermingled with flinty tones. Surprisingly, the flor nuance disappears with generous aeration. This 1997 is tight, fresh and elegant on the lively, incredibly young palate, leaving intensity, salt and complexity. The wine is very long and highly promising, a stellar vintage for the Wachau and Nikolaihof."
Wine Advocate
Score
94-96
Date
2021-12-20