2009 Machherndl Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Steinwand

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  4/23/2013 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 13.5%} Seashells and brine. A really salty palate, too. Acid is fairly soft, but this is quite big and thick and dense otherwise. Not exactly a pue form of varietal expression, but a flavourful, if not so interesting, example of the grape.

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  6/15/2012 - graemeg wrote:

  {screwcap, 13.5%} A solid straw-yellow colour. Salty nose; restrained. Tastes of seawater and wet rocks, with a vaguely minerally note. Not especially fruity. I wouldn't say there's a lot of development here yet either, although I'm not that familiar with GV, especially in an aged way. It's kind of medium-bodied; courtesy of the alcohol it has quite some presence in a gewurz-like manner, although with far milder flavours. It's bone dry, which helps, but it mostly seems to be a fairly austere wine, washed in grey/green flavours. Has a mostly front-palate profile. I suspect this is best drunk early, before it turns into some kind of tinned green vegetable, because the acid is pretty soft.

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