The Knoll winery has produced so many cult wines over the past decades that you could fill an entire book with these tasting notes alone. The label with St. Urban also has cult status and has fortunately not been changed in the past decades. However, a lot has happened at the winery itself: Emmerich H. Knoll junior, who has also been chairman of "Vinea Wachau" since 2012, and his brother August run the business together. They are still supported by their parents Emmerich Sr. and Monika Knoll as well as Emmerich's wife Anja.
Around 19.5 hectares are cultivated, a good third of which consists of terraced vineyards. Grüner Veltliner (45 percent) grows in the Kreutles, Trum, Loibenberg and Schütt vineyards, Riesling (45 percent) in the Loibenberg, Kellerberg, Pfaffenberg and Schütt vineyards. If the vintage permits, both varieties are also used to make the Vinothek bottling, a selection of the ripest grapes from various vineyards. The range is complemented by wines from the Gelber Muskateller, Chardonnay, Gelber Traminer and Blauburgunder varieties. In years with good botrytis, the range also includes noble sweet wines from Auslese to Trockenbeerenauslese. A positive practice at Knoll: the Smaragd and Prädikat wines are not delivered until September so that they can mature in the cool cellar over the summer. Knoll wines are considered to be late starters (which is in fact untrue) and very long-lived (which is entirely true).
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