Best Bottle Monday with Friends (Carlton, Zurich): Unmistakable Grüner Veltliner nose with loads of pineapple, very intense, clean and fresh. On the palate complemented by some grass aromas, hints of petrol, just a tad residual sweetness. Creamy and rich but enough acidity to keep the pleasure level high and preventing the wine from becoming to heaving and cloying. This gave room for the very precise and pure pineapple aroma to shine.
Probably the best Grüner Veltliner I encountered so far. Often the fruit seems canned and not that fresh, other times the sweetness might be overbearing. This bottle, however, had it all right. I deduct points as the complexity was rather low with a slight lack of minerality (and as Grüner Veltliner has just not my favorite aroma profile).
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Monday Bouteille (Carlton Restaurant, Zurich): Intense nose with flavours of ripe peach and the typical canned pineapple so typical of Grüner Veltliner. Also some honey, crème brulee or biscuits as secondary aroma components. A slightly oily texture provides for a pleasing drinking experience. Decent value for money if you can get a hold of it.
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Nose starts with cantaloupe, Charentais melon, and honeydew. Drying apricot, apple, and white peaches on the palate. No petrol but some interesting chlorine whiffs hanging around. A fair bit of salinity. Pleasant stoniness and petrichor. Super dry.
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Very concentrated and rich without being heavy. Ripe fruit notes, but also lime fruit, saline, gentle spiciness, very dense and powerful but well balanced. Great length, just needs a couple of more years. 93-94+
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8/7/2018 - Cailles wrote: 93 Points
Best Bottle Monday with Friends (Carlton, Zurich): Unmistakable Grüner Veltliner nose with loads of pineapple, very intense, clean and fresh. On the palate complemented by some grass aromas, hints of petrol, just a tad residual sweetness. Creamy and rich but enough acidity to keep the pleasure level high and preventing the wine from becoming to heaving and cloying. This gave room for the very precise and pure pineapple aroma to shine.
Probably the best Grüner Veltliner I encountered so far. Often the fruit seems canned and not that fresh, other times the sweetness might be overbearing. This bottle, however, had it all right. I deduct points as the complexity was rather low with a slight lack of minerality (and as Grüner Veltliner has just not my favorite aroma profile).
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8/6/2018 - sirpat00 wrote: 93 Points
Monday Bouteille (Carlton Restaurant, Zurich): Intense nose with flavours of ripe peach and the typical canned pineapple so typical of Grüner Veltliner. Also some honey, crème brulee or biscuits as secondary aroma components. A slightly oily texture provides for a pleasing drinking experience. Decent value for money if you can get a hold of it.
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1/4/2017 - Sirmika wrote: 91 Points
kann mit Honivogl nicht mithalten
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9/7/2015 - The Vines That Bind Likes this wine: 91 Points
Nose starts with cantaloupe, Charentais melon, and honeydew. Drying apricot, apple, and white peaches on the palate. No petrol but some interesting chlorine whiffs hanging around. A fair bit of salinity. Pleasant stoniness and petrichor. Super dry.
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6/28/2014 - rossi.wine wrote: 94 Points
Very concentrated and rich without being heavy. Ripe fruit notes, but also lime fruit, saline, gentle spiciness, very dense and powerful but well balanced. Great length, just needs a couple of more years. 93-94+
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