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Bill Mayer (The Age of Riesling): "Bäuerl's are lusty and earthy, with plenty of stuffing. They are not the most elegant wines in the world, but they give you the goods, and are just packed with flavor... His best vineyard is the Pichl Point... His Smaragd wines have all the power you could ask for, though I'm sensing that Bäuerl prefers wines that are not too alcoholic, so that even though they have a kind of forcefulness to them, they are not ponderous, or thick. That slinky Wachau characteristic is always in evidence."
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$49.95
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Terry Theise: "When this is good it’s really good, and the 2011 has wonderful grip and elegance for 'big' wines from this warm year; classic rusk and dried porcini aromas; salty and tatsoi and really good Pho; stern yet juicy, serious yet sensual."
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W&S 90
Austria
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90 points and 'Year's Best Austrian Wines,' Wine & Spirits: "This is long and willowy, notes of orange blossom and rose imbuing the savory mineral flavor with surprising grace and delicacy. It lasts long, feeling stately in its steadfast hold. (Apr 2013)"
Terry Theise: "Here began a fantastically encouraging series of ‘11 Rieslings, such as I have not experienced here for a good 12-14 years. This is the best Steinmassel for quite some time, capturing its fervent rocky minerality -- it’s a high-up vineyard on gneiss, amphibolite and mica-schist -- while being entirely juicy and approachable; redcurrant and herbal-leafiness, and if you like dry Riesling, then yummy."
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IWC 92
Austria
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92 points Peter Moser (International Wine Cellar): "[$80 list] Medium green-yellow. Inviting bouquet of peach, greengage plum, honey and dried apricot over a subtle background of smoky flint. Intense and concentrated peach and pineapple are wrapped in a transparent veil of sweetness and elegantly suspended by a firm acid spine. Finishes with lingering hints of papaya and pineapple. Drink 2011 to 2023. (Nov/Dec 2009)"
Bill Mayer (The Age of Riesling): "The 'Lyra' is the most sheerly beautiful of all Willi's Rieslings, a masterpiece of cool minerality combined with sensational fruit. Impossible to have a conversation drinking this wine."
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Importer notes: "Frau (Mrs.) Mayer owned and tirelessly worked this single vineyard for decades. In 2006, after years of observing Erwin Poller work his vineyards with such care and dedication, she chose him to continue her legacy. From this 60 year old vineyard comes a limited quantity of wine, but with a special status, dedicated to the memory of Frau Mayer. Tasting notes: deep golden yellow, tobacco in the nose, fine flavor, fine mango, a little honey on the palate, very powerful, peppery spice, is rich, good adhesion, excellent aging potential."
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Austria
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Importer notes: "The Engabrunner Stein Erste Lage, rests on the border of Wagram and Kamptal, technically belonging to the Kamptal region. This wine is grown on soils of gneiss, chalk and loess, as well as red and yellow sands. The grapes are grown on old vines, the oldest of which were planted in 1957. The wine receives a 30 hour maceration on the skins which contributes to its intensity of mineralic expression. The Stein is now RESPEKT - biodynamic certified."
Not yet reviewed; 2010 vintage rated 92 points by Wine Advocate: "From terraces (about which I'll write more in the near future) of loess mingled with gravel and eroded gneiss in Engabrunn just over the line in the Kamptal Ott's 2010 Gruner Veltliner Stein - the second bottling of its kind; the inaugural, on which I'll report soon, having proven little less than sensational - features pear, yellow plum, orange, and beet root on a polished palate, with orange rind, peppery cress, salt, and a crystalline mineral note making for vibrant interaction and delightful invigoration on a lusciously lingering finish. This seamless, mouthwatering beauty picked in the last days of October should retain its virtues for at least a decade."
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Austria
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Producer notes: "Deep yellow-green color, marvellous Riesling-nose with aroma of cigars, which is typical for Loibenberg, splendid with sumptuous depth on the palate balanced with lots of mineral taste
from the gneiss soil -- an exemplary wine close to top! From 15- to 40-year-old vines. Alcohol 14.5%."
Wine Spectator: "[$50 list] There's a rich white chocolate essence to the ripe apple and baked peach flavors. The finish is plush and filled with plenty of cream and spice notes. Drink now through 2022. 40 cases imported. (2011)"
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Terry Theise: "I sometimes think if I had to select just one wine from my entire portfolio that would express why I do this and what I believe in, it would be this one. 8.82 hectares in all of Austria -- Heidi has 10% of them -- reintroduced after having vanished by a small coterie of loyal idealists, difficult to grow, late-ripening and high acidity, and a subtle searching flavor that so perfectly expresses the sad sweetness of late Autumn. The stubborn fragrant quince, the little divinity-crystals in the pear, the low honey-sun, all there in these wines. And this usually bashful wine is like a 21-gun salute in ‘11. A swoon of fragrance, dizzy whirling galaxies of complex sweetness; linden blossom concentrate; the palate is mint and salt and pepper, steel and stones and the vapor-echo of that sweet aroma; serpentine and somewhere beyond 'expressive,' out in its graceful orbit in the smooth warm ether of beauty."
Importer notes: "Heidi Schröck has managed her family’s estate since 1983, and produces wines in her hometown of Rust of impeccable quality. In 2003 she was awarded 'Falstaff Vintner of the Year', making her one of only a handful of women to be obtain this distinction. Her estate encompasses 10 hectares where she grows Weissburgunder, Furmint, Muscat, Grauburgunder, Welschriesling, Zweigelt and Blaufränkish. Heidi has a deep respect for the cultural traditions of the region and is credited with resuscitating Ruster Ausbruch, the noble sweet wine of Neusiedlersee. The family motto states that tradition should be honored but also mixed with progress; for it means keeping alive the fire, not adoring the ashes."
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Rotgipfler is an aromatic white variety found almost exclusively in the Thermenregion of Austria. It makes powerful, high alcohol wines suitable for cellaring. Bright straw yellow with golden reflections. On the nose, refreshing tropical fruit, lychee, coconut, strawberry, pineapple and pear, delicate blossom honey, hints of vanilla. On the palate, vanilla, coconut and pineapple.
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WHWC notes: "Whether or not you can pronounce the name of this wine will simply cease to matter once you nose its sublimely delicate aromas, then feel its weight going all over your palate. If ever a wine could make you sweat, this is it. I sampled this white from Eastern Austria's Thermenregion recently at my favorite wine bar in Hollywood. The bar's owner and I each nosed the immensity of white flowers, melon and wet rock, then sipped to find a honeyed, glyceriny weight on the palate that finished dry, and endlessly. Voluptuous but classy, buxom yet reserved, this is a wine that understands its own beauty, and knows how to control it. WHWC is the exclusive retailer as well, so get a bottle quick." - Lily Davis, WHWC
For centuries, the white grape variety Zierfandler has been been known in Gumpoldskirchen as "Spaetrot," roughly translated as "late red" -- so called for the telltale red color of its fruit when fully ripe. Thus it is no coincidence that the winery of the the Gebeshuber family carries the same name, and that the winemaking duo of Johanna and Johannes Gebeshuber have chosen to specialize in the traditional Zierfandler and Rotgipfler varietals. Spaetrot-Gebeshuber wines captivate through their characteristic flavor: multi-layered, smooth and elegant, the wines are at the same time pleasing to the palate.
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