2009 Weingut Hirsch Grüner Veltliner Lamm

• By Peter Moser
  April 2011, (See more on Vinous...)

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• Report 25: Wines of Austria, 1/1/2011, (See more on i-WineReview.com...)

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Terry Theise Estate Selections

• By Terry Theise
  2011 Austrian Catalog, 5/1/2011, (See more on Terry Theise Estate Selections...)

  (Hirsch Grüner Veltliner Lamm) ($56.00) Of the three producers I sell who have this great vineyard in common, Hirsch’s are the most drinkable wines. You will think “This is fantastically good” more often than you’d think “This is profound.” These also have a percent less alcohol than Gobelsburg’s or Bründlmayer’s. Johannes bottles them late, and what I taste are barely developed tank samples. I can’t remember the last time I tasted the finished wine in bottle and wasn’t blown the fuck away by how sensational it turned out to be. But the notes I share have to be the notes I took. The ’09 is rusk-y, buckwheat, barley and mutton, yet there’s another whole profile that’s mineral and marjoram and parsley root, linked by a huge mineral-green wave; a powerful, even stern wine mitigated by its lush demi-glace richness.