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Austria
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Light greenish yellow, typical Veltliner with aromas of apple and peach, balanced acidity, extremely lively with a long finish. Alcohol 12.0%. Very versatile food wine.
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$49.95
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Austria
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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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$21.95
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W&S 88
Austria
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Terry Theise: "CORE-LIST WINE. This has attitude in 2011; herbs and even a hint of lees; the palate is cool and minty, with a firm peppery finish. More of a textbook GrüVe than either the glowy 2009 or the burly ‘10."
88 points and 'Year's Best Austrian Wines,' Wine & Spirits: "Sweet-fruited and spicy with clove-like tones, this is ripe and inviting, with the body to match roast goose or duck. Best Buy. (Apr 2013)"
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$29.95
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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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$19.95
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Austria
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$49.95
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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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$10.95
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Der Pollerhof is made from several vineyards in Roschitz, in the region of Niederösterreich. It is hand harvested and is fermented in steel tanks. This wine has notes of tropical fruit, ripe apples, white pepper, minerals and citrus fruit. Good body, balanced and sappy through the finish. Great value!
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$14.95
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WS 88
W&S 88
Austria
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88 points Wine Spectator: "[$18 list] A peppery red, with good concentration and a savory edge to the raspberry, blueberry and lingonberry flavors. The snappy acidity and a spicy finish give this verve. Drink now. 75 cases imported. (2013)"
88 points and 'Year's Best Austrian Wines,' Wine & Spirits: "[$18 list] This is purple and spicy with a black-pepper kick, bright acidity keeping the fruit taut and fresh. For sausages off the grill. Best Buy. (Apr 2013)"
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$21.95
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WS 89
W&S 89
Austria
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Terry Theise: "CORE-LIST WINE. Loess and red sand here, and this wine is made from old vines of 60+ years. For me it’s the callingcard wine of this estate, embodying Ludwig’s spirit perfectly. The ‘11 is a lovely superripe GV; flowering fields and vetiver and smoky paprika, yet there’s still a braised fennel or leek-y greenness in the middle, all surging toward a creamy spicy finish, with a note of the crisp skin of a perfectly cooked fish."
89 points Wine Spectator: "Ruby grapefruit flavors are well-defined in this crisp, rich white, featuring touches of creaminess and hints of lentil and curry, with chalky notes on the finish. Drink now through 2018. 60 cases imported. (2013)"
89 points and 'Year's Best Austrian Wines,' Wine & Spirits: "This has a sweetness of fruit that brings to mind white peaches as well as a vegetal note that recalls spring’s first peas. The acidity gives it a clean edge, the cut to handle the bacon you might add to a bowl of those peas. (Apr 2013)"
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$16.95
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$15.95
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Producer notes: "The Am Berg, is the basic level GV, typically produced at a slightly lower alcohol level than all other GVs at the estate. The Am Berg comes from vineyards in the northern stretch of old Wagram where the soils are heavily composed of loess."
Not yet reviewed; 2010 vintage rated 89 points by Wine Advocate: "A meadow-like array of floral and subtly grassy notes in the nose of Ott's 2010 Gruner Veltliner Am Berg ushers in a bright, buoyant palate, whose cherry, lime, cress, and lentil puts me in mind of a hypothetical blend of loess-based Gruner Veltliner and Saar Riesling. There is an impressive sense of clarity and vivacity; irresistible finish refreshment; and I am confident at least 2-3 years of satisfaction, even though surely just about all of this wine will have been drunk-up by 2012."
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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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Importer notes: "The most widely recognized wine from Ott is the ‘Fass 4’. This GV is composed of 5 small parcels that surround the Rosenberg vineyard, also mainly composed of loess with some additional gravel as well."
Not yet reviewed; 2010 vintage rated 88 points by Wine Advocate: "Ott's 2010 Gruner Veltliner Fass 4 represents half his own fruit (mostly from younger vines) and the rest via contract with a grower who is in conversion to Ott's preferred biodynamic regimen. Tart rhubarb, lime and snap pea mingle on a palate of polish and palpable extract-richness yet ample refreshment and (at 12.5% alcohol) some sense of levity. While the ostensibly lesser Berg bottling strikes me as a bit more distinctively delicious at present, this Fass 4 will surely satisfy for the next several years if not beyond."
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$23.95
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Terry Theise: "You know, this is the only Chardonnay I offer other than Blanc de Blancs Champagne. I’m putting it on the hard-core list because of something that struck me while I was there tasting; this is really naked Chard -- das ding an sich (the thing in itself doesn’t quite translate) -- and as such it offers a rare glimpse into the inherent flavor of the variety -- such as it is. They let it do malo and leave it on the lees, but all in steel. It shows Pouilly-Fuissé aromas; sweet straw, lemon, mineral; it has more dialogue than the Pinot Blanc; supple, graceful, clear and salty, quite possibly the best-ever vintage of this."
Importer notes: "An estate both admired and beloved within Austria, for hearty yet focused whites and sumptuous deeply structured reds, both of which are undergoing certain deft transitions; the whites more primary (i.e., less malo) and the reds more succulent (i.e., fewer gravelly tannins)."
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Terry Theise: "Following the astonishing 2010 won’t be easy. But this is true to type, i.e., boxwood and nettle, polished and silky, irises all over the place; lovely, amazingly classy and even complex for its price. It’s no exaggeration to call this one of the world’s best wine values."
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W&S 93
WS 91
Austria
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93 points and 'Year's Best Austrian Wines,' Wine & Spirits: "The best grüner veltliners of 2011 translate the ripeness of the vintage into a warm vibrancy of flavor, like this one, which Michael Moosbrugger pulled from 25-year-old vines on gravelly loess not far from his winery. It has a plump yellow-peach succulence but it’s the spice -- a rooty, earthy, gingery note -- that drives through the wine like bass notes through a woofer. It holds its vibrant freshness for days, delicious with a hunk of pork belly. (Apr 2013)"
91 points Wine Spectator: "[$27 list] Features a flowery aroma, with broad, well-defined flavors of salted almond, blood orange and grapefruit, that show notes of lentil and gooseberry. The powerful, mineral-driven finish ends with notes of white pepper and tarragon. Drink now through 2020. 56 cases imported. (2/28/13)"
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W&S 88
Austria
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88 points and 'Year's Best Austrian Wines,' Wine & Spirits: "Crisp, lemony acidity flits through this wine’s sweet rose-scented fruit, a brisk, charming riesling to gulp down all summer long. (Apr 2013)"
Terry Theise: "CORE LIST WINE. Absurdly good in its (or any) class; an almost daunting complexity of grasses and herbs, seriously bright and phenolically crisp; tarragon and aloe vera and Gyokuro."
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$27.95
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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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W&S 90
Austria
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90 points and 'Year's Best Pinot Noir,' Wine & Spirits: "This is lushly fragrant, its rosewater and litchi scents balanced by sappier notes of licorice and pine. An herbal note as feathery as chervil gives it a pleasantly bitter cut. It sent one taster on a reverie about the smoked trout at Gramercy Tavern; it’d also add class to a Sunday morning spread of smoked sable, bagels and scrambled eggs. (Apr 2013)"
Terry Theise: "I just learned this wine made it into Vinaria’s top-10 Muscats of the 2011 vintage, which is high praise. There’s an almost lurid elderflower aroma, a Romanesque body (13.8% alc.) and an enveloping structure -- Heidi’s Muscat isn’t meant to be snappy and primary -- it’s a potpourri of papaya, yet stern and salty below the foamy wave of exotic fruit."
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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Terry Theise: "Amazingly complex aromas; rice pudding and semolina dumplings and west coast oysters and candied lemon and darkmeat chicken and balsam; leesy and salty and with a quivering just-caught seafood sweetness. Her best-ever? I can’t recall its equal."
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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50% Zierfandler and 50% Rotgipfler. Bright yellow. On the nose, orange and citrus notes, pineapple and pear, with facets of hayflowers. On the palate, harmonious with exotic fruits, light citrus notes and a hint of spice. Food Pairing: light cuisine, appetizers, fish, fowl, noodles, Asian cuisine in general, also spicier dishes.
Not yet reviewed; 2010 vintage rated 91 points by Wine & Spirits: "A blend of zierfandler and rotgipfler made entirely in stainless steel tanks, this is at once mouthwatering and lush. Tart apple and lemon notes play over fragrant quince, the texture broad and supple. The full, lasting flavors would stand up well to a pork roast."
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$11.95
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Producer notes: "Our classic! This represents the typical Veltliner from Kremstal. Greenish-yellow in color. Ripe apple, fine spice, and ripe fruit on the palate. Minimal residual sugar. Typical peppery characteristics. Long finish. Pairs very well with rich meat dishes; however, as is typical of classic Veltiner, it does well as an all-around fine food match."
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