Austria, like many other wine regions, produces everything from sparkling wines to unctuous, long-lived dessert wines and everything in between. White wines, however, are Austria's true strength, with the clear leader being Gruner Veltliner which constitutes about a third of the country's vineyards. Though Gruner Veltliner is grown in numerous places around the world, the Austrian versions are superior. Dry Gruner is crisp and clean with flavors of pineapple and citrus, minerals, white pepper and often Arugula. In addition to Gruner, Austria also produces some fine dry Rieslings that tend to have a marked mineral character. While Austria is white wine focused, it certainly has some good red wines. Austria has Cabernet, Merlot, Blauburgunder, Zweigelt, Blaufrankisch and St. Laurent. Austria, like Germany, also has a tradition of dessert wine excellence. Austria is often able to ripen grapes to Trockenbeerenauslese levels and is able to produce some outstanding late harvest wines and at time, Eisweins.
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Bright chimney orange, fresh fruits in the nose, seductive buket, on the palate very elegant and balanced blackberry and strawberry flavor, fine integrated residual sweetness, complexly, fruitly finish.
Rich ripe clean upfront fruit. firm mouthfeel toasty nutty botrytis.
Hand harvested and steel tank fermented; this is an excellent example of a typical Gruner Veltliner. Light, dry, and refreshing with a clean aroma of white pepper and peaches. The Celebrated Austrian painter Christian Ludwig Attersee creates a new label for each vintage.
Pineapple, white peach, lime and a whiff of arugula and white pepper accompany some big-time zesty acidity and minerality in this pleasing and refreshing Gruner.
Very refined, with elegant flavors of apple, peach, citrus and spice. Excellent balance, with understated power. The crisp finish features minerally notes.
Fruity, forward and charming with wild strawberry flavors, plum and cola. Sort of like a Morgon Cru Beaufolais after a few months of aging in a small oak barrel.
This has a good freshness up front, with green apple and citrus flavors and some herbal notes. The finish is crisp and lightly spiced. Drink now.
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