About 3 years since my last bottle. This is fantastic now. On the nose: ripe peach, soft yeast, dense honeysuckle, soft petrol..so floral and intense. Fantastic acidity, and amazing density, lemon oil, peach, honey, then dripping with mineral intensity...wet stone, mineral oil, and the fruit recedes, only to reappear as soft lemon on the finish. Absolutely lovely. — 4 years ago
Dynamic floraly herbal aromas of green pear, starfruit, lemon, and green herbs. Wonderfully dry and just what I wanted tonight. Tastes like fruity green beans, crushed gravel, a hint of papaya and snap peas. Austrian gem — 7 years ago
Exceptional a real pleasure for the nose and the palate, an angel delight of green grapes with a coat of pollen — 7 years ago
Stunningly complex and alive, this is what I was hoping to find when opening an older bottle of Smaragd Gruner Veltliner.
The color was medium gold, no hint at all of age here.
The nose however started to put us where we were thinking, but there was still some youth. A deep and penetrating nose of golden delicious apples, yellow plums, and quince paste. The nose was so deep I wanted to jump into the glass!
The palate was exceptional, perfectly balanced with excellent density, breadth and a crazy long finish of minerals, fine acidity and subtle, juicy golden fruits.
An epic wine for me and a new benchmark for Gruner for my palate.
To add to the magic I walked the vineyard earlier in the day. — 9 years ago
Lad @ Sohm in NYC w/ Jim. Sharp initial w/ smooth finish. Very good! — 10 years ago
Nona had this 11 years ago
Skurnik import. — a year ago
surprisingly spritzy indeed!!! — 4 years ago
Lighter bodied, red fruit & berry, slight baking spice a hint of earthy, med acid & tannin, bright & friendly, some Gamay-like qualities. — 5 years ago
Винополис.
Очень чистое, деликатное, неяркое.
Среднее тело и кислотность, хороший финиш. — 6 years ago
Well Balanced. Flavors of honeydew, grapefruit and grass. Great spring/summer wine. Go Pens!!! beat the Crapitals!!! — 7 years ago
Maturing well but still bright and fresh. Petrol, racy lemon-lime. Nice minerality — 8 years ago
Beautiful pale salmon pink color with very fine, persistent, fast bubbles. Gentile strawberry and mineral nose. Crisp and dry with creamy bubbles and wonderful, fresh acidity. Soft flavors of red currant and strawberry. Finish finish is long, crisp and elegant. — 9 years ago
Nice medium body. Dry and delicious — 10 years ago
What's not to love? Happy Labor Day to me. @saugatuckgrainandgrape — 12 years ago
Sharp on outer sides of the tongue, grapefruit, white pepper, clementine and white peach, chamomile, green apple….
Beautiful and lasting flavors on the palette. Great price for a unique wine. — 2 years ago
Grüner Apfel, Säure, — 3 years ago
#rieslingfeier
— 6 years ago
Love the spice (almost white pepper) stone fruit fabulous — 7 years ago
This is totally freaky. It takes like flame broiled green onions. — 8 years ago
Nice nose mostly apples. Great acidity but balanced and a nice finish. Where have all these Austrians been all my life? Eminently quaffable — 9 years ago
Fantastic on a humid hot day! Classic #GruVee — 10 years ago
@delectable Federspiel — 11 years ago
Stephen Osgood
vibrant snappy green Grüner. excellent complement to fish taco @ Quintonil. — a year ago