This was a clear step up from the wonderful 2020. Green/gold in color, clear and bright. The nose is great with slight peach, limes and minerals. Oily texture. Light tannins. On the palate, flavors of limes, white pepper and slight peach. Great acidity. Long finish with slight bitter note (in a good way) on the finish. This is drinking very well now and should continue to for the next six to nine years. It would be great with a green olive and onion pizza.
Tasted at the winery. The 1ÖTW indicates a Premier Cru vineyard. Yellow gold in color, clear and bright. The nose is nice with limes and some minerality. Medium tannins. On the palate, this is ripe and bigger in nature than many from this vintage. Limes and lemons with some minerality. Long finish. One of the best 2020 Gruner's tasted! This drinks well on its own and would be a nice match with shell fish. Drink over the next five to eight years.
Alte Reben translates to Old Vines. Tasted at the winery. Yellow/gold in color, clear and bright. The nose is nice with limes and minerality. Slightly oily texture which is nice. On the palate, this is complex and deep and quite concentrated. Flavors of limes with underlying minerality. Good acidity. Long finish. This is great on its own and will be better with food. This would be great with Vietnamese Pho. Drink over the next eight to twelve years.
This is from Austria. Screw capped. Upon pouring, this is noticeably spritzy/frothy. A friend who brought the bottles back from Austria said a bottle consumed last summer was not spritzy. It would appear that this is a separate bottling and best guess, they gave it a shot of CO2 right before bottling. There is a popular drink in Austria made from Gruner Veltliner and Selzer which is essentially a Gruner Spritzer. Perhaps, this is the wineries take on that. Light golden with a fair amount of medium sized bubbles. Clear and bright. The nose has limes, pears, and slight herbal note wh
Tasted at the winery. Green/gold in color, clear and bright. The nose is interesting with green apples and light smoky notes. Nice viscous texture. Light but persistent tannins. Medium bodied. On the palate, green apples and white pepper. Someone mentioned Mirabelle plums but I am not sure what those are. This is drinking quite well now and should continue for another eight to twelve more. Great on its own, this will work quite well with pasta primavera.
Tasted at the winery. The Kirchenberg vineyard is sheltered, south-east facing and situated below the historic church of Senftenberg.
