Franz Xaver Pichler, Urgestein Terrassen Gruner Veltliner Smaragd, Wachau
Franz Xaver Pichler · Niederosterreich › Wachau › Austria
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Taster #0805
· Dec 17, 2022
89/100
Perfect age.
2012 vintage
Taster #3460
· Jul 12, 2019
a bit too aggressively textural and phenolic bitterness drives the midpalate and finish. has all the components of snap pea/white pepper/wasabi, with white peach and the first signs of petrol, but with no charm to bridge the fruit and savory, just bitterness in the middle. it certainly is a style of its own, but just too much.
2012 vintage
Taster #8570
· Jun 25, 2018
Nose - crisp green apple, lime, lovely fresh nose Mouth - flinty, bone dry, green apple with a bit of unidentified spice. I can see this washing down a nice grilled fish.
2012 vintage
Taster #6493
· Apr 14, 2016
89/100
Virtually devoid of fruit right now except a touch of lemony pith, good but kind of severe and stony.
2012 vintage
Taster #0110
· Jan 7, 2015
90/100
I served this in my wine course. Mint and vegetable nose. I often read about tea for GVs, and I think I'm finally getting it in this one. Light, mid palate, moderate finish. Overall a bit too green (ignore pun) for me in the sense of loads of vegetable in the nose. Gruner Veltliner is one of the few varietals for which I almost always prefer a later harvest, unless I'm drinking it by the pitcher with Selchfleisch.
2012 vintage
Taster #5395
· May 4, 2013
Wachau Spring Wine Festival (Wachauer Weinfrühling) (The Wachau) : Great tension. Racy. Mineral. € 16. ***++
2012 vintage