1997 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Hochrain

Wine Details
Producer

Rudi Pichler

Place of Origin

Austria

Wösendorf

Wachau

Color

White

Grape/Blend

Gruner Veltliner

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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With his '97 collection, the talented young Pichler (a distant cousin of "F.X.") enters the pantheon of top Austrian producers. What more, for the first time he allowing some of his production to reach our shores. The good side of 1997's slow fermentations, says Pichler, was the possibility afforded for long lees contact. He emphasized the need to select rigorously, reduce skin contact and press carefully to avoid off flavors from the stems, which had frozen.