90/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19

90/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19

92/100 Punkte Wine Spectator, Mar 31, 2019
Lovely aromas of lily, rose, vanilla and coconut accent the peach and pineapple flavors in this white. A firm structure and dense texture make this complete. Multidimensional, with enough acidity for balance, and the body helps out. Persistent saline finish. Grüner Veltliner. Drink now through 2027.

93/100 Punkte Falstaff Weiguide 2018/19

91/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Helles Grüngelb, Silberreflexe. Feiner Duft nach gelbem Apfel, ein Hauch von Wiesenkräutern, feinwürzig, Limettenzesten. Saftig, elegant, eingebundene Säure, Mangonoten im Abgang, zitronig im Nachhall, vielseitig einsetzbar.

90/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 31, 2017
Ott's 2016 Grüner Veltliner Fass 4 displays a deep, clear and pretty intense white fruit aroma intertwined with a noble spicy-mineral, quite stony flavor. Medium to full-bodied, intensely fruity but also mineral and provided with crystalline acidity, this is a remarkably delicate and filigreed Grüner Veltliner. Ending with a clear, piquant and salty finish, it is a first-class wine to pair with many dishes, mainly veggies, fish and white meat. Tasted at Schloss Gobelsburg in July 2017.

92/100 Punkte Vinous October 2018
Lentil, snap pea, green herbs and fresh lime on the nose set the parameters for a silken-textured yet stimulatingly crunchy mid-palate performance that combines nutty, earthy richness with cooling herbal essences, fresh legumes, and brightly juicy, Riesling-like citrus. Suggestions of sweet red pepper, raw almond, piquant citrus pip and marine minerality add to an appeal that culminates with (again Riesling-like) crystalline stony impingements and a mouthwatering compulsion to take the next sip. At 12.2%, this weighs-in with considerably higher alcohol than that of the corresponding #Am Berg,# but still little enough that it conveys a delightful sense of lift to accompany its irresistibility.

92/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19

92/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19

93-95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2015/16
Leuchtendes Gelbgold. Reife Quittennote, ein Hauch von Orangenmarmelade unterlegt, zarter Blütenhonig, rauchige Kräuterwürze im Hintergrund. Saftig, cremige Textur, angenehme Fruchtsüße, gelber Pfirsich, dezente Säurestruktur, feiner Honig mit Karamellnuancen im Abgang, sehr gute Länge, sicheres Entwicklungspotenzial.

94-96/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Goldgelb. Zarter Blütenhonig unterlegt weiße Steinobstfrucht, ein Hauch von Passionsfrucht, feinwürzig, etwas Orangenzesten. Gute Komplexität, saftig, elegant, feine Struktur, straff, extraktsüß nach Maracuja, mineralisch-salzig im Nachhall, bleibt gut haften, tolles Reifepotenzial.

92-93/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
The intensely yellow-colored 2016 Feuersbrunner Rosenberg 1ÖTW opens with a deep, intense and complex bouquet of crushed stones, perfectly ripe fruits and a lovely phenolic freshness coming from the skins. Gorgeous! The attack on the palate is piquant, the fruit super ripe and intense, leaving a densely woven carpet with some mineral needles and fine tannins on the palate. Coming from 60+-year-old vines, this is a great, full-bodied and vivacious Grüner Veltliner from the Wagram that reveals a long and vital, stimulatingly salty finish. Tasted as a sample at Schloss Gobelsburg in July 2017.

96/100 Punkte James Suckling
Flinty and rather closed. Not only extremely concentrated, but also very refined for grüner veltliner with an almost endless finish. Needs a couple of years before it will give its best, but this is a masterpiece of elegance from Bernhard Ott. Screw cap.

94-96/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Goldgelb. Zarter Blütenhonig unterlegt weiße Steinobstfrucht, ein Hauch von Passionsfrucht, feinwürzig, etwas Orangenzesten. Gute Komplexität, saftig, elegant, feine Struktur, straff, extraktsüß nach Maracuja, mineralisch-salzig im Nachhall, bleibt gut haften, tolles Reifepotenzial.

92-93/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
The intensely yellow-colored 2016 Feuersbrunner Rosenberg 1ÖTW opens with a deep, intense and complex bouquet of crushed stones, perfectly ripe fruits and a lovely phenolic freshness coming from the skins. Gorgeous! The attack on the palate is piquant, the fruit super ripe and intense, leaving a densely woven carpet with some mineral needles and fine tannins on the palate. Coming from 60+-year-old vines, this is a great, full-bodied and vivacious Grüner Veltliner from the Wagram that reveals a long and vital, stimulatingly salty finish. Tasted as a sample at Schloss Gobelsburg in July 2017.

96/100 Punkte James Suckling
Flinty and rather closed. Not only extremely concentrated, but also very refined for grüner veltliner with an almost endless finish. Needs a couple of years before it will give its best, but this is a masterpiece of elegance from Bernhard Ott. Screw cap.

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19

97/100 Punkte James Suckling, October 2018
Very pristine and youthful with a stunning combination of concentration and grace on the palate. This is one of the highlights of the vintage for Austria's signature grape. Very long, cool finish with a slew of herbs and minerals. From biodynamically grown grapes. Respekt certified. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19

97/100 Punkte James Suckling, October 2018
Very pristine and youthful with a stunning combination of concentration and grace on the palate. This is one of the highlights of the vintage for Austria's signature grape. Very long, cool finish with a slew of herbs and minerals. From biodynamically grown grapes. Respekt certified. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

92-94/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Goldgelb. Kräuterwürze unterlegt feine Passionsfrucht, ein Hauch von Orangenzesten, zart pfeffrig, attraktives Bukett. Gute Komplexität, saftig, elegant, eingebundene Säurestruktur, mineralisch im Abgang, gelbe Tropenfrucht im Nachhall, bleibt lang haften, profitiert von Flaschenreife.

91-92/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
The 2016 Feuersbrunner Spiegel 1ÖTW is a Grüner Veltliner that opens with a clear and intense, very attractive tropical fruit aroma of mango and passion fruit with some spicy stony aromas. Fresh, round and piquant on the palate, this is a well structured and juicy Veltliner with a stimulatingly pure, salty and refreshing finish. The aftertaste is long and very aromatic again and reveals the full body again without being overloaded. It is a delicious Spiegel with a long and tensioned, clear, almost dry, well structured finish. I tasted this enormously stimulating 2016 as a sample at Schloss Gobelsburg in July 2017.

95/100 Punkte James Suckling
I love the cool and minty nose, which is followed by a very elegant and concentrated palate with understated power that ends in a firework display of herbs and minerals. A great grüner veltliner from Bernhard Ott that will be better from 2018. Screw cap.

95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2018/19

94/100 Punkte Robert Parker December 2018
Picked on September 28, Ott's 2017 Grüner Veltliner Ried Feuersbrunner Spiegel 1ÖTW is very clear, subtle and elegant on the distinctive nose. In early September 2018, the nose displayed white stone fruits intertwined with refreshing, refining gravelly and floral notes. Later that month, the wine showed tropical notes on the intensely fruity, elegant, sexy nose. Full-bodied, rich and dense on the palate, with intense, lush, concentrated fruit and vitalizing, fine acidity, this is a very persistent and powerful Veltliner with a very long, forward, mineral and tensioned finish. This is a powerful but elegant giant and needs time to gain finesse and transparency. The elegance here, however, is remarkable. Tasted twice in early and late September 2018.

18/20 Punkte Vinum November 2018

95/100 Punkte James Suckling, October 2018
Tons of white pepper, but also lemon zest and licorice. Great freshness for the vintage. Dense but only medium-full palate and a very long, mineral finish. From biodynamically grown grapes. Respekt certified. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

93/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2016/17
Leuchtendes Gelbgrün. Feiner Duft nach Blütenhonig, zarte gelbe Tropenfruchtnuancen, ein Hauch von Wiesenkräutern, etwas Mango. Gute Komplexität, saftig, elegant, finessenreiche Säurestruktur, mineralisch, zarte Steinobstnuancen im Abgang, Maracuja im Nachhall, tolles Potenzial, guter Speisenbegleiter.

93-95/100 Punkte Robert Parker June 2016
From gneiss soils covered with white and red sand and finally loess, the 2015 Engabrunner Stein 1ÖTW Grüner Veltliner is a very clear, deep and flinty flavored wine with superripe white-fruit aromas on the nose. Rich and elegant on the palate. this is a generously fruity but precise and tension-filled Veltliner with a lush texture and a precisely mineral piquancy in the pure and salty finish. An impressive Veltliner full of grip and aging potential. Due to hail damage yields were very, very low in 2015 and only 4'000 liters of the 2015 Stein have been bottled from 5.25 hectares of vines. It was the deadline day of this issue (June 3) when I got the chance to taste the 2015s of Mister Veltliner Bernhard Ott, one of the leading wine estates in the Wagram region, if not the whole Danube valley. These wines, especially the grands crus or Erste Lage wines from Grüner Veltliner (indicated on the label as 1ÖTW), are the greatest wines Ott has bott

17/20 Punkte Schweizerische Weinzeitung November 2016

93-95/100 Punkte Falstaff Weinguide 2017/18
Leuchtendes Gelbgrün, Silberreflexe. Einladender Duft nach Mango und Honigmelone, unterlegt mit etwas Wiesenkräutern, zarte florale Nuancen, Orangenzesten. Saftig, gute Komplexität, feine Mineralik, straff und elegant, facettenreiche Säure, Pfirsichnoten im Abgang, leicht extraktsüß im Nachhall, gutes Potenzial.

91-92/100 Punkte Robert Parker August 2017
Coming from gneiss soils covered with white and red sand and finally loess, the 2016 Engabrunner Stein 1ÖTW is Ott's one and only Kamptal Grüner Veltliner. Intensely citrus-colored, the wine opens with a clear and flinty bouquet of perfectly ripe white fruits and exciting citrus aromas. Round, finessed and elegant on the palate, this is a full-bodied, complex and mineral Veltliner with intense and lingering fruit aromas that are almost tropical. Although the 2016 is a bit too sweet for my taste, and also lunch or dinner, it is well structured due to the fine acidity and perfectly integrated minerality. Mind, though, that as soon as the CO2 has disappeared, the wine will taste sweeter than in the beginning. Tasted as a sample at Schloss Gobelsburg in July 2017.

95/100 Punkte James Suckling
A very distinctive grüner veltliner from the flinty nose through the sleek and sinuous body to the intensely mineral finish. Made from biodynamically-grown grapes. Drink now. Screw cap.