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• Umay Ceviker wrote: 92 points

  September 15, 2023 - Deep and bright gold. Flinty, smoky at the start slowly giving way to grapefruit and lemon aromas followed by herbal undercurrents. Full of life with vivid citrus flavours and a distinct saline tang. Full and creamy in texture as a result of the time spent on its fine lees. Very long and lively on its finish.

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• Latache01 Does not like this wine: 86 points

  July 19, 2019 - Being a huge fan of this winery for many years, the 2013 vintage is not my cup of tea - harsh and bitter wines with petrol notes, lacking the wild appeal that the Ex Vero-line typically is showing. While the 2012s have been thrilling from the start, 2013 is proving its reputation as a tricky vintage in Styria.

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• grapenomad wrote: 92 points

  April 19, 2019 - As I'm about to start the 9th official House Pour today with the theme being amber wine, I can't help but reminisce about this beauty from Werlitsch's dungeon of secrets. There are some wines that you drink and you're like "ah, this is nice to drink a bottle of before I got back to the office" and then there are wines that you quit your job for, move to Austria and become part of Ewald Tscheppe's cult. After all, the winemaking culture here is thousands of years old, so you'll be working with some of the oldest Sauvignon Blanc plantings outside of France. Not too shabby.
  
  You know that flint that hits you on the first sniff and you hear people whispering behind you "so reductive, much wow". Well this is not that kind of electrical fire, burnt rubber flint, lads. This is the stuff that you smell when you smash a rock in half and get that 2.4 millisecond of what we controversially call minerality nowadays. And it's all over this wine here. Beautiful. Some notes of lime, almost that overripe fruit that stays in your fridge too long because nobody in your house knows whose it is and doesn't bother throwing that shit out. Splashes of pleasantly oxidized pear, green apple and apricot. Underlayers of herbal medicine that I can't really pinpoint, but it's some Eastern European thing we'd drink to forcefully cough up the phlegm caused by years of living in Sarajevo's biohazardous environment. The thing that gets me on the palate immediately is the crunch. It's almost literal. Like eating the finest pork skin right off the blazing spit. It's not just a sensation, it's a whole fucking experience in it's own. The high acidity simultaneously highlights this and the fruit, which is fresher this time. The only thing stopping me from exclaiming "outstanding" is that all this initial intensity starts to die down slowly as you enter the late mid-palate and head towards the finish. It's clinging to its previous glory with all its might. Now I'm left to see how Freude performs against 11 other lit oranges.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2013
• Type White
• Producer Ewald Tscheppe (Weingut Werlitsch)
• Varietal White Blend
• Designation Ex Vero II
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Austria
• Region Styria
• SubRegion Südsteiermark
• Appellation n/a

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• In Cellars 7 (26%)
• Consumed 20 (74%)

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