2017 Grüner Veltliner, Alte Reben, Willi Bründlmayer, Kamptal, Austria
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Stephan Reinhardt - 28/12/2018
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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.
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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The 2017 Grner Veltliner Langenloiser Alte Reben offers an intense, generous, elegant, refined, coolish, spicy-mineral bouquet of perfectly ripe, healthy fruits. Full-bodied, fresh and intense with juicy fruit and delicate tannin structure, this is a generous but pure, terroir-driven Veltliner sourced from more than 40-year-old vines, mainly in the Spiegel and Kferberg. The finish is lovely, pure, fresh and salty, very stimulating but also complex. Tasted September 2018.
Stephan Reinhardt - 28/12/2018
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