Sohm & Kracher St. Georg Gruner Veltliner 2019 Wine (75cl)

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St. Georg is the village where the second parent grape of Grüner Veltliner was discovered in 2000; Traminer is the mother vine and Sankt Georgen is the father. This site is cooler in temperature, sits mid-slope and is planted on pure limestone. Inspired by Burgundian winemaking techniques, the result of this wine is a very unique-almost Chablisienne-style-of Grüner Veltliner. It is clean and beautifully textured with fresh melon and rhubarb aromatics. Sohm & Kracher recommends decanting this wine. Aged for four years in barriques and 1,000-liter foudres, the 2019 Grüner Veltliner St. Georg is from Muschelkalk and slate soils in Sankt Georgen, Leithaberg. The intensely yellow-colored wine opens with a deep, rich and intense, elegant, tropical but also yeasty bouquet. Full-bodied, rich and powerful on the palate, this is an elegant, refined, seamlessly textured St Georgen with intense and lush tropical fruit but also the nervy and refreshing lemony/chalky character of the site. This is not only the greatest wine from friends Aldo Sohm and Gerhard Krachher but also a highlight in the white wine canon of the Burgenland. A rich and very complex, full-bodied dry white that has a Burgundian textural complexity, but also a very Austrian character. I love the interplay of toasted nut, dry straw and floral honey aromas with the flint and lentil notes. Long, complete finish. Still youthful for five years of age. Drink or hold. The 2019 Grüner Veltliner Sankt Georg is from the Leitha limestone of St Georgen. The wine was fermented in large 1,000-liter barrels and used barriques, where it stayed for 4.5 years. A lovely vestige of reduction combines with gentle creaminess and roasted hazelnut on the nose. Creaminess and freshness are foremost on the palate. It is superbly concentrated but not heavy, with wonderfully integrated oak that brings out cut rather than roundness and a long, cooling, elongated finish. This is Grüner, but not as you know it.