1997 F.X. Pichler Grüner Veltliner Smaragd 'M'

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 94.4 points

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  4/6/2019 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Keller Hubacker vertical tasting 2006-2017 plus X (@Private location): Glass: Gabriel Gold
  Popped and poured. Clear, pale golden color, quite youthful. Drunk a bit too warm. Nose quite closed at the beginning. Some volatile acidity, ripe apricot, smoke, some caramel. On the palate very concentrated and deep. Wonderful ripe yellow fruit, salt, caramel, lots of extract, racy, ripe medium+ acidity, beautiful tension and balance. Still seems very young. Beautiful wine. 94-95

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  1/20/2019 - NoTrollingerPlease Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Glass: Zalto Universal
  Decanted, drunk over three days from a bottle with a good fill level.
  Clear, medium lemon-golden color, incredibly youthful. Clean, medium+ intense, developing nose with lots of canned tangerine, some vegetables, smoke and spices. Very dense and compact as well as deep complex.
  On the palate an enormous pressure and energy! Very dense, creamy and round, but also very well balanced. Yes, you can feel the 14,5% here and there. But the perfectly integrated, almost racy acidity, balances the heat mostly well. Very complex flavors of caramel, salt, yellow fruit, tangerine, white pepper, lemon and honey from the botrytis. Great length, very intense. This wine did not diminish over the three days and has certainly at least another decade ahead. An awesome example for the capabilities of the top Grüner Veltliner in Austria. 94-95

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  12/17/2017 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Weltklasse. Ingo erkannte ihn sofort als Grünen Veltliner aus seinem Herkunftsland. Nur mit dem Jahrgang tat er sich etwas schwer. Kein Wunder, denn seine 20 Jahre sind ihm überhaupt nicht anzumerken. Er kommt leichtfüßig, elegant, aber mit viel Druck um die Ecke. Je länger er sich im Glas öffnet, desto komplexer und vielschichtiger wirkt er am Gaumen. Zitrus, Gras, weisser Pfeffer, etwas exotische Früchte und dazu Mandarine. Die straffe Säure läßt ihn einfach wie einen Jungspund erscheinen. Tolles Matchup mit der „Kartoffelkiste“ als Hommage an Christian Jürgens. Danke Benjamin Kriegel für die Geschmackskombination und vor allem Diego für die Ermöglichung dieses Weinerlebnisses. 96

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  8/28/2017 - winequant Likes this wine: 94 Points

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  5/11/2009 - salil wrote: 93 Points

  Grüner and Riesling fireworks at Apiary (NYC): A little muted compared to the Kellerberg (which was just an insane wine and would have overshadowed pretty much anything poured alongside); quiet aromatics with some white pepper, smoke, white fruits and green herbal notes on the nose. Spicy white fruits, beans, herbs and minerals on the palate with good acidity and a medium-long finish. Tasted the leftovers the next day (thanks Stephen!) and it seemed a lot more open and focused - seems to need a bit more time and patience.

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