Community Tasting Note

forceberry wrote:

Friday, January 23, 2015 - Youthful lime green color. Expressive nose of overripe pear, some yellow apple, a little white pepper and a hint of vegetal greenness. Medium-bodied, somewhat concentrated and even a bit oily on the palate with medium-to-moderate acidity. Quite powerful, but rather austere flavors of unripe pear, pithy citrus fruits, white pepper-driven spice, some ripe white fruits, a little herbal bitterness, a hint of vegetal greenness and a touch of star fruit. The dry finish is long and somewhat higher in acidity than the midpalate, but also quite rough and somewhat bitter with a bit austere flavors of stony minerality, herbal bitterness, some green apples, even a hint of hoppy, resinous greenness and a touch of wax.

A powerful and concentrated, but also a bit austere and somewhat difficult expression of Grüner Veltliner. Definitely not a ripe and fruit-forward crowdpleaser. Some years in a cellar might coax some complexity out of this wine and also could resolve the tightly-knit structure a little, but I doubt that this one will hold for extended cellaring due to its rather modest acidity. A stylish but somewhat difficult white wine that is definitely not for everybody and absolutely needs food to show its best. Feels slightly expensive at 26,30€.

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