Emmerich Knoll Gruner Veltliner Smaragd Ried Kreutles 2023 Food all built around parcel-by-parcel precision

all built around parcel-by-parcel precision and hand harvesting

or poultry

In a continental site with loess soils holding water

Phylloxera never established itself in this kind of sand

Emmerich Knoll Gruner Veltliner Smaragd Ried Kreutles 2023 Food all built around parcel-by-parcel precisionThe Land Ried Kreutles sits near the village of Unterloiben, in the heart of Austria's Wachau along a dramatic bend of the Danube. This is a south facing parcel low on the slope, where deep sandy loess, dropped by ancient winds, sits over gneiss eroded out of the Alps by glaciers. That combination of warm, well drained loess and hard primary rock is ideal for Grner Veltliner, and the continental Wachau climate, hot days and sharply cooler nights off