2001 Franz Hirtzberger Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Honivogl

Community Tasting Notes (23) Median Score: 93 points

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  9/24/2023 - Guido L. wrote: 95 Points

  What a great wine and pleasure to drink. Dried apricots, peach, pear, candied orange. So smooth and mouth watering. Long finish. No hurry to drink it up as there is still a lot of life in it.

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  12/30/2022 - cfk49 wrote: 94 Points

  Rich, complex, smooth, medium-weight plus, long, just a touch of sweetness.

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  12/20/2022 - cct wrote: 95 Points

  Pop and our, Drunk over several nights.
  
  Day one: pea, cucumber, stony, herbal, lily, and dried apricot on the nose. On the palate, it's deep and structured but with terrific lift. Viscous but not heavy. Powerful, toothsome, vertical, rich yet balanced. A lovely herbal and savory wine. It drinks with a mineral water like clarity. Very long on the back end with more of the same and some white pepper. Drinking beautifully. No reason to hold.
  
  Day two deeper and richer. it's stony and a little smoky on the back end. 95.

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  5/24/2022 - 5laton wrote:

  At Nostrana. Quite dark in color, resembling Arizona green tea w/ ginseng and honey. The wine was lovely though, with a delightful mature texture. Needed 30 to 45 minutes to get going. Thanks Kirk!

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  12/4/2020 - NYC_Maenad Likes this wine:

  I bought 4 of these in 2006 and drank one back in 2007. I honestly don't remember how that one showed, so I had no expectations going into this one, except that I've found sometimes gruner with this much age can get a negative core, a lacuna at the center where the fruit was, which can turn decidedly hollow when the overall wine begins to dry. Decanted this bottle briefly and served in Zalto Universal stems. Drank over 2 hours. From moment one, this was riveting. I felt like a cat looks when it's been asleep, but a noise wakes it and suddenly it's 100% alert. Notes of dried orange peel, ginger, burnt sugar, savory pastry crust all swirled together. Beautiful, just beautiful. On the palate it was vibrant, though definitely drying out, with its bones beginning to show through. Astonishingly, the bitterness that often leads to the negativity was there, but in a supporting role, and there was no hole at the center. What must have been pretty lush fruit in its youth was still lending mid-palate fullness and cladding those bones in velvety softness. I can see how this must have been truly opulent once upon a time. Even worn somewhat with age, the texture is still there if you look. We drink a lot of white wine, many different varieties, and this was not like anything else I've had lately. It carried its 14% alcohol effortlessly. A truly exciting, compelling and fascinating wine. I wish I had a lot more of this, of that all Gruner could work this magic. A true joy and delight.

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