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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!
     
    F X PICHLER
One of Austria's top estates, making really top-class wines - worth the price, please try a bottle!
     
12 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
 
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
 
25 75cl Gruner Veltliner Kellerberg Smaragd
RP -
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
 
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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