Josef Mantler (Mantlerhof)
Most years, you get to blind-taste an old wine here, regardless of whether you've been good, since Mantler serves it first. This year, it was a truly remarkable 1977 Roter Veltliner, still crisp on the edges but creamy-rich at its center. Maybe the choice of '77 was nostalgic, since that was a year notable for the levels of sugar achieved in utterly healthy grapes. In 1998, Mantler and his wines, particularly his gruner veltliners, frankly took something of a drubbing in size and quality at the rather rough hands of botrytis.
From Austria's Astonishingly Successful 1998s (Nov 1999) by David Schildknecht
1998 Riesling Zehetnerin
Color: White
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1998 Chardonnay Trockenbeerenauslese
Color: Sweet White
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