Tiny quantities of this wine were produced in ’03 and again in ’04. It is an impressive wine, with intense sweet apricot and honey flavors, still giving fine, fresh acidity to balance the dense texture. 1 Note
Dry, crisp and very fresh, this wine is a lighter style of Grüner, but delicious. The grapefruit flavors are clean, poised and lightly elegant. Not imported 1 Note
This is Knoll’s flagship wine, from the Dürnstein Schütt vineyard. It is powerful, intense stuff, a roll-call of ripe flavors, even in the difficult 2007 vintage. The wine brings out spice, yellow fruits, fresh apple skins and peppered grapefruit. The extra element is the complexity that goes deep into flavors that need to develop over several years. 1 Note
The wine has richness, but it is the balancing freshness that makes this wine so delicious. There is also a core of tight structure, a layer of spice that comes through strongly. But that tense freshness holds the wine together and promises aging. 1 Note
F.X. Pichler, Gruner Veltliner Smaragd Urgestein - 2009 - 2009
