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Grüner Veltliner
Grüner Veltliner is Austria's most famous grape variety. It is indigenous to Austria and is grown extensively in every Austrian wine region with the exception of Steiermark. It constitutes 36% of all vineyard plantings with the best wines coming from the north-east of the country, particularly regions such as the Wachau, Kamptal and Kremstal which border the Danube river.
Grüner Veltliner is a late ripening variety that typically produces wines that are pale green in colour and display fruit notes of grapefruits, limes, pears, and sometimes hints of white pepper. They normally possess a steely backbone of acidity which enables the best bottles to age gracefully. The grape's natural acidity accompanied by its restrained and understated fruit characters makes its wines ideal partners for food. A marvellous alternative to the more mainstream white grape varieties.
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Prager wines are not shy retiring souls but full on, technically tweaked pieces of work, similar indeed to those of Barolo's Luciano Sandrone. Once upon a time Prager used large oak but those were washed away by the Danube & by Toni Bodenstein (Prager's son-in-law), intent on making pristine wines without any hint ofmalolactic conversion or botrytis/noble rot, necessitating strict control in the vineyard & winery.
Thing is, by using stainless steel the wines take longer to come round, more so when sealed by a screwcap; unhelpful given most of their (local) market looks for early drinking styles...which consequently requires oak! Still they have the magnificant Achleiten vineyard as their trump card: an historical vineyard first documented in 1521! South facing, planted in 1953, the yields are Sandrone-small at 17hl/ha in 2011 giving rich exotic white pepper notes and a creamy, succulent texture. Emphatic! Drinking now but will keep.
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