2005 Weingut Knoll Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Loibenberg

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  8/15/2016 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:

  Dinner with Jeffrey and Alberto at the Osteria Dei Sognatori, Alba: Jeff brought this excellent Gruner. Some reduction on opening. A beautiful, complex bouquet of white pepper, mint, mixed herbs, nuts and smoke. Viscous, honeyed, complex and nutty in the mouth. Not a lot of acidity, but mineral and malic, ripe and rich. Clean and pure. Very good. There now for drinking.

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  10/3/2015 - RajivAyyangar wrote: 93 Points

  Birthday at the Ocho (SF): Concentrated lemon-gold color in the glass. Slightly reductive (struck match, burnt rubber). Highly complex nose of saffron and wax (botrytis), chilled honeydew and cantaloupe, melon custard (even a suggestion of durian), dried orange peel, faint candied rose petals (terpenes), fresh king trumpet mushrooms (some development, but early in it), and a powerful impression of wet stones and crushed rock.
  
  There's some viscosity in the mouth. Alcohol is slightly elevated. Seems around 13%. Elevated acidity, strong, clean, and mostly tartaric. Modest phenolic bitterness with a sweet radish impression.
  
  On the finish it stops surprisingly short given the intensity on the mid palate, but this is a classic example where the length of the finish shouldn't determine quality. The complex and balanced nature of the nose carried this for me. A real treat!
  
  Score: between 9 and 9.5.

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  9/7/2015 - rlove wrote: 88 Points

  Deep gold. Subtle nose of toast, honey, and dried herbs. Beautiful balance of acid and residual sugar. The nose is secondary but the mouth is still bright and fresh.

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  12/25/2012 - wattacetti Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Broken cork but worth the effort to get it open. Slightly sweet with with a nice complementary acidity; still has a few years to go.

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  2/1/2011 - wurzel68 wrote: 91 Points

  Tiefes goldgelb; mal eher kräuterwürzige Noten, mal eher exotische Frucht mit viel Ananas an der Nase; ausgesprochen konzentrierter, druckvoller Eindruck am Gaumen mit enormem "Pfefferl", dahinter tragender Säurestruktur und viel Extrakt; langer, langer Abgang; noch ein Baby mit viel Potential für die Zukunft; 2013 - 2020 scheint mir ein angemessenes Trinkfenster

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