The 1997 Vinothek Riesling Fass Severin is actually an emerald and spent well over 20 years until the summer of 2022 in large, old wooden barrels. For many years, winegrower Niki Saahs has been sneaking around this barrel, which was already there full when he slowly took over the business from his parents. Tried again and again and pondered about the right release date. Now in 2022 the time had finally come, the time was right, Fass Severin was bottled.\n\nDrinkable history and equipped with this immortality of the barrel maturity of the Nikolaihof, which makes this winery a kind of great old Rioja of the Wachau white wine - unique and iconic. And if you then smell the first glass, you can be sure that it will be able to mature in the bottle for another 20 years. Because that smells so young and vital, that no blind tasting would ever guess the age of this wine. The bouquet is almost shy and puristic. I have a certain spiciness here in the form of herbs and fresh tobacco. Then oolong tea, some ripe apricots and mirabelle plums. On the palate it has a gripping tannin structure that gives it substance and bite. Very spicy, ethereal and deep in all the aromatics. So this is what a Gran Reserva from the Wachau tastes like. Big!
