Advent Wine Pichler Grüner Veltliner
This morning I finally managed to pull out a not blind tasting bottle! And the first white wine of the season too! What I got was a Grüner Veltliner from F.X. Pichler – just about the only Grüner Veltliner available in Turkey.
I adore Grüner Veltliner. Luckily I have an Austrian friend who brings back bottles to share with me. Even though she comes from Welschriesling country and gently mocks my pronunciation of Grüner Veltliner. It’s a deceptively difficult thing to say. Or so I tell myself to avoid having to admit simply that my German accent is atrocious. My apologies to all German speaking people to whom I have subjected my German.
Weingut F.X. Pichler Grüner Veltliner, 2016
This Loibner Federspiel Grüner Veltliner is not only one of the very very few Grüner Veltliner wines we can get in Turkey, it’s one of the very very few Austrian wines we get period. Family run since 1898 F. X. Pichler’s vineyards in the Wachau lie on the southern side of the Danube and are planted in steep terraces.
Appearance: intense, bright lemon
Alcohol: 12% abv
Nose: Quartzy mineral aromas wrapped around a fruit core, with lime zest, kaffir lime leaves, grapefruit, flint, and yellow apple
Palate: On the palate the wine is a little spritzig (effervescent) and dry. Like the aroma profile, palate flavors were intense and full of green apple, green apple peel, citrus zest, flint, and splashes of fresh lime juice highlighted by a racy acidity.