Willi Bründlmayer, Extra Brut, Langenlois, Austria

Willi Bründlmayer, Extra Brut, Langenlois, Austria

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Willi Bründlmayer, Extra Brut, Langenlois, Austria

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Reinhard Löwenstein created his estate in 1980, spending the early years identifying top sites, before settling on five hectares of prime, precipitous Winningen (Lower Mosel) slate slopes. His passion lies in expressing the personality of each of his myriad slate soils, trusting only in his senses.

A blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, with a little Grüner Veltliner, this wine has biscuity autolytic notes on the nose, with lovely aromas of apple and lemon. The palate is dry, refreshing and mineral, with cool citrus and apple fruit concentration, a fine, silky mousse, and a lingering finish. The time on lees adds layers of complexity and texture.

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Wine Advocate90/100
The NV Extra Brut Reserve is Brndlmayer's Champagne cuve blending Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, both fermented in stainless steel and aged in small and large oak vats. Disgorged in January 2018 (lot L. 4150) this bright golden colored cuve opens with an intense, perfectly ripe, lovely, pure, fresh and discreetly aromatic bouquet of ripe Mirabelle and crushed nuts. Pure and fine on the palate, this is a very elegant, bone dry, salty, perhaps somewhat ascetic extra brut in a lean and refined style. It could be a bit more complex and persistent for my taste. Tasted September 2018.
Stephan Reinhardt - 28/12/2018 Read more
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This blend of 2012 and 2013 vintage Chardonnay and Pinot Noir (plus a smidgeon of Grüner Veltliner), from by no means early pickings, is delightfully and intriguingly dominated by toasted grain, nuts, lees and marine mineral elements, all suspended in a juicy matrix of apple and lemon. Subtly silken in underlying texture and with fine mousse, it finishes with mouthwatering persistence and, despite its analytical dryness, no sense of austerity.
David Schildknecht - Vinous, June 2016 Read more

About this WINE

Willi Brundlmayer

Willi Brundlmayer

Willi Bründlmayer is widely recognised as one of Austria's most gifted winemakers. He is best known for his Rieslings and Grüner Veltliners, although he also makes very high quality Chardonnays.

He has 57 hectares of vineyards, superbly sited high up on slopes around the wine town of Langenlois. His best site is the Heiligenstein vineyard where the rocky granite/slate soils produce Rieslings of astonishing mineral intensity, which age beautifully.

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Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or.

Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.

Because of the thinness of the skins, Pinot Noir wines are lighter in colour, body and tannins. However the best wines have grip, complexity and an intensity of fruit seldom found in wine from other grapes. Young Pinot Noir can smell almost sweet, redolent with freshly crushed raspberries, cherries and redcurrants. When mature, the best wines develop a sensuous, silky mouth feel with the fruit flavours deepening and gamey "sous-bois" nuances emerging.

The best examples are still found in Burgundy, although Pinot Noir`s key role in Champagne should not be forgotten. It is grown throughout the world with notable success in the Carneros and Russian River Valley districts of California, and the Martinborough and Central Otago regions of New Zealand.

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