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AUSTRIAN Wines
AUSTRIAN Wines
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Austrian Wines
Austrian wines
have made a really BIG impact in the last 5years; the wines
listed below are from top growers so represent excellent value for
money! |
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F X PICHLER
One of
Austria's top estates, making really top-class wines - worth the price,
please try a bottle! |
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75cl |
Gruner Veltliner Klostersatz
Federspiel
RP -
Aromas of sweet pea, oregano
and nutmeg lead to a juicy, amply ripe, yet still snappy and delicate
(despite 12.5% alcohol) palate. A sweetly suggestive peach, melon and
sweet pea matrix is beautifully accented with nutmeg and white pepper.
The finish is long and juicy, pungent but proportionally so and without
bitterness. This is an excellent value, the more amazing for being from
one of Austria’s ostensibly “cult” wineries. |
2004 |
£17.00 |
RP90
2005-16
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12 |
75cl |
Gruner Veltliner Kellerberg Smaragd
RP -
The 2005 Gruner Veltliner
Smaragd Kellerberg (tasted from cask), smells unusually sweetly of snap
pea, ripe apricot, and strawberry jam, with its site-typical pepperiness
very much relegated to the background. In the mouth, the fruit flavours
surge in pepper-tinged waves and the wine finishes with a veritable
organ chord from mocha, peach kernel, wet stone, and pepper pedal point
through luscious pit fruit and red berry to high-toned distilled fruit
esters. |
2005 |
£45.00 |
RP96
2007-24
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25 |
75cl |
Gruner Veltliner Kellerberg Smaragd
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The 2004 Gruner Veltliner
Smaragd Kellerberg, tasted from cask, reeks of ripe peaches, well-hung
Virginia tobacco, (Viognier-like) acacia, and Szechwan peppercorns.
Full-bodied, oily, and rich in the mouth, and loaded with blood orange,
grapefruit, persimmon, peach, tobacco, pepper, nut paste and brown
spices, it suggests a hint of sweetness entirely appropriate to and
supportive of the opulent overall impression, which is rather vintage
atypical. (It’s the terroir?) Massively-endowed, yet elegant, this
brilliant Kellerberg displays unplumbable depth and a cascading wealth
of finishing flavours in which the tobacco gets lit up and smoked
without a trace of heat. |
2004 |
£47.00 |
RP97
2005-19
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29 |
75cl |
Riesling Kellerberg Smaragd
RP -
The 2004 Riesling
Smaragd Kellerberg is forced to follow a 2003 that was to my palate the
wine of that vintage. Nevertheless, from barrel, this 2004 performed
impressively. “It smells just like a breeze coming in off the ocean,” I
say, and – whether that’s minerals or my imagination – the Pichler's jump
on the comment, insisting that they consider precisely this aroma a sign
of quality and concentration in their young Rieslings. Beyond the ocean
is a bountiful medley of ripe peach, pear and apricot, subtle notes of
chalk dust and (Kellerberg signature) white pepper. On the palate, these
elements ally with juicy, vivid citrus and fruit pit accents. The finish
has all the citrus, minerals and fruit pits so common in this vintage,
but also a sheer opulence of fruit and a peacock’s tail of flavours that
go well beyond this year’s norm and demonstrate the quality inherent in
this famous vineyard. |
2004 |
40.00 |
RP95
2005-18
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