Wine Anorak:
95 points Spitzerberg 2007
Quite a beautiful aromatic nose, similar to the Carnuntum with its fresh bright cherry fruit, but there's more depth here, with subtle hints of tar and herbs and some sweet plum fruit. The palate has a lovely elegance and an amazing firm but silky structure. There’s a wonderful combination of fresh acidity and firm structure, with some floral characters emerging after a while. It’s like a combination of Pinot Noir and Nebbiolo – a beautifully subtle but powerful wine that’s so fresh and bright.

94 points Spitzerberg 2006
This is beautiful. Real elegance to the sweet, pure dark cherry fruit nose with some subtle, spicy, earthy notes. The palate is supple, rounded and elegant with sweet cherry and berry fruit, smooth texture and some resolved silky tannins. A beautifully expressive wine with haunting elegance. Still quite tannic so should develop well over the next decade.

92 points Carnuntum 2006
Taut nose of cherries, spice, herbs and tar. There’s some robust tarry, spicy, savoury structure under the fruit on the palate. Nice fruit, but also a strongly savoury dimension, and this is going through a slightly difficult phase at the moment. After two days it is still quite firm and together.

Wine Advocate:
93 points Spitzerberg 2006
90 points Carnuntum 2006
"The 2006 Spitzerberg follows a pattern of picking and vinifying the best parcels in two lots: one riper, without de-stemming; the other less ripe, de-stemmed, and given extended maceration. The overall impression here again combines intense black fruits (elderberry, mulberry, blackberry), Szechaun pepper, and pungent herbs familiar from other wines at this address, but now with a deeper core of flavors, the wine’s sassy brightness and sheer energy here harnessed to carnal and mineral complexities and generating a memorably palate-staining, savory finish. I would not hesitate to cellar this with the expectation that it will be worth following for a decade. The Muhr-Niepoort 2006 Carnuntum represents their second wine, fermented with a high percentage of whole clusters and minimal extraction, but comes entirely from the Spitzerberg. Superb purity of bitter-edged black fruits and a silken-texture yet vivacity mark this as a wine perfect for present consumption, yet there is really no telling yet how it will mature. (I have not had a chance to revisit the excellent 2004.) Pepper, herbs, and smoky pungency contribute to the complexity here just as in the 2004, but this outstanding value shows an extra measure of refinement and sheer length.