Sohm & Kracher Single Vineyard Gruner Veltliner 2018 Wine (75cl)

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The "Single Vineyard" bottling was the inaugural wine that launched the Sohm & Kracher label. This site is comprised of calcareous, gneiss and loess soils and benefits from the cool Nordic air. The wine undergoes the same pressing and settling regiment as St. Georg and Alte Reben but is fermented 100% in 1000L Stockinger casks and aged for 20 months. The texture is rich but the acidity is higher and more polished. The 2018 Grüner Veltliner Single Vineyard comes from 50+year-old vines in the Pulkau Valley, cultivated on loam, gravel and calcareous soils and was aged in large 1,500-liter oak casks for four years. It opens with a deep, intense, complex and finely saline bouquet of ripe, elegant, concentrated fruit that is initially intermingled with pencil tip notes. It is full-bodied, round and intense on the palate, with crystalline and persistently saline yet fine, mineral acidity and the bitters of a warm vintage on the warm and powerful yet refined and elegant finish. This is a mouth-filling, complex and sustainable Veltliner with initially some Riesling features (elegance, finesse and mineral as well as phenolic tension) but in the end-and after some days-full terroir and vintage character. A rich and complex gruner veltliner with restrained mandarin orange and apricot aromas plus a touch of smoke on the nose. A powerful and full-bodied mouthful thanks to the ample healthy tannins that also power the imposing and very dry finish. From a vineyard with very chalky soil. Matured for four and a half years in 1,000 liter barrels of used Slovenian oak.