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Fred Loimer was already in Austrian wine headlines as a very young man. He had only entered his third decade when in the early 1990s he assumed responsibility for an estate that his father had built up from a mixed agricultural farm with only a handful of vines. Loimer has never looked back in terms of qualitative ambitions, creating a major Grüner Veltliner brand called “Lois”; branching into serious Kamptal Pinot Noir and very recently into méthode champenoise; taking a leading role inside Austria in biodynamics and sustainability; not to mention becoming a major shareholder in and director of a sister estate, Schellmann, in the Thermenregion. Most importantly, though, Loimer has kept honing the style and refining the quality of his Grüner Veltliners and Rieslings, supplementing the latter with strategic acquisitions of additional prime acreage. In fact, although his early reputation was built on Grüner Veltliner, Riesling has been the star of recent Loimer vintages. Loimer explains that the shock of the June 2013 hail in several of his most important sites really exacerbated the poor, heat-struck flowering and resulted in exceedingly sparse clusters with many tiny berries but ultimately irregular ripeness. Despite that looseness and paucity of berries, there was eventually some less-than-noble rot, which taken together with additional ramifications of hail doubtless explains a few 2013 disappointments at this address. (I’ll report on Loimer’s new sparkling wine project along with my impending report on his 2014s.)

From 2013: A Great Vintage for Austrian Riesling and Grüner Veltliner (Nov 2015) by David Schildknecht

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2013 Grüner Veltliner Langenlois

Release Price: $22

Color: White

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