2019 Moric Grüner Veltliner Serious wine from a Gorgeous place Sankt Georgen

Community Tasting Notes (3) Median Score: 93 points

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  4/13/2024 - Ernestas Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Still perceived atypical Gruner Veltliner by Austrian authorities which disallow to be labeled as GV from Sankt Georgen. Made from a 65 year old vines, long aging on lees in 500L old Austrian oak barrels. Medium golden colour. Intense aroma of flint, stone, peaches, apricots, seashell, beeswax, honey. Medium+ body, serious Gruner, concentrated mineral flavour profile yet restrained, soft and elegant structure, tightly knit juicy and flinty fruits, pleasant bitterness, medium+ focused acidity.

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  3/1/2024 - ccn Does not like this wine: 88 Points

  The 2016 of this wine was outstanding. I found this 2019 vintage disappointing. Concentrated and pure, yes; but highly acidic, tightly wound, and nervous with none of the sexy reductive notes I loved in 2016.

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  4/20/2022 - originalverkorkt Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Serious Georgeous is a wine that, unfortunately, is always in the sign of dispute with the authorities. It should actually be called Sankt Georgen Grüner Veltliner, but it is repeatedly rejected by the Federal Office as being untypical of the variety in the quality wine test.
  
  The wine comes from Sankt Georgen, a district of Eisenstadt am Leithagebirge. There are five, mainly southeast-facing sites, surrounded by a great deal of forest, quite far from Lake Neusiedl, and still somewhat shielded by the intervening Rust Hills. It is mainly the limestone soils that give Grüner Veltliner a completely unique character. The loose and small-berried grapes come from 42 to 65 year-old vines. After direct pressing without maceration - Roland Velich attributes the tannin to the age of the vines - the juice was spontaneously fermented and aged in 500 liter tonneaux.
  
  intense straw yellow
  
  If you have this wine in the glass, you actually would not think at first that this could be a Grüner Veltiner. The interplay of old vines, the limestone soil and the method of aging in tonneaux seems too different to be reconciled with the typical ideas of the variety. The wine is simply different, but challenging and exciting with its initially very opulent aromatics of toasted nuts, yellow stone fruit, caramel and some underlying herbal notes, some pear cream and stone.
  
  On the palate, the Serious Georgeous shows a lot of power and a lot of depth, with a clear note of campino candy orange at the start, but this disappears with time. With air, the Grüner Veltliner becomes multi-dimensional and complex with more white-fleshed fruit, notes of long lees aging, citrus and verbena. The wine seems creamy, but also has a surprising amount of tannin for not having had a maceration period. The finish seems tartly herbal, juicy, generous and long. Georgeous? Definetely!

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