{"id":70305,"date":"2025-12-11T14:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/?p=70305"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:06:04","slug":"gault-millau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/gault-millau\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensation! 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Highest Wachau Scores in the Gault&Millau Guide<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kbtpx6qf-715e70d921b6bab21c131dcce79b8d74 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Highest Rating in the Wachau Region | Top 10 of Best Rated Producers in Austria | New: 5-Star Producer (Top Grading) | Blind Tasted by Austria\u2019s Best Sommeliers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new Gault&Millau Wine Guide 2026 has been published \u2013 and it brings outstanding results. With two wines scoring 97 points and another scoring 96 points, we have achieved the highest rating, on par with Grabenwerkstatt and ahead of all other renowned Wachau wineries.<\/p>\n<p>Another special distinction is the awarding of the 5th grape. This highest rating of the guide is reserved for only a few wineries \u2013 it designates them as world-class estates. The wines were blind-tasted and evaluated by leading sommeliers and wine experts \u2013 one of the most renowned and independent juries in Austria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our top ratings at a glance:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 97 points: Riesling Smaragd Ried Achleiten 2024<br \/>\n\u2022 97 points: Riesling Smaragd Ried Kellerberg 2024<br \/>\n\u2022 96 points: Gr\u00fcner Veltliner Smaragd Ried Kellerberg 2024<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Gault&Millau jury evaluated wines in varietal rankings and in the \u201cBest of Lower Austria\u201d list. Our 2024 Rieslings from Achleiten and Kellerberg rank among the 15 best wines of Lower Austria and, along with our Gr\u00fcner Veltliner Ried Kellerberg, are featured in the Top 10 varietal rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Our single-vineyard Smaragd wines 2024 will be released in March 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-j9uy81-0ff5088f70c1080368ef556ba9d61d37\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-j9uy81-0ff5088f70c1080368ef556ba9d61d37{\nheight:20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-j9uy81-0ff5088f70c1080368ef556ba9d61d37 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_button '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-ka2718ma-fd01ecb00281412bd506b88b5b2cca53-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/our-wines\/single-vineyards\/'  class='avia-button av-ka2718ma-fd01ecb00281412bd506b88b5b2cca53 av-link-btn avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-x-large avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'   aria-label=\"Single-Vineyards wines\"><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue832' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Single-Vineyards wines<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8954,"featured_media":70280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71418,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70305\/revisions\/71418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.domaene-wachau.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}