Sonntag Geschlossen Gruner Veltliner 2014 sw france orange oil and inky black

orange oil and inky black soil

lightly creamy texture that echoes with crushed berries

We were skeptics too

5ha vineyard of centenarian cordon trenzado (braided vines) Listan Blanco at 600m elevation

freshly harvested hay and charcoal

Sonntag Geschlossen Gruner Veltliner 2014 sw france orange oil and inky blackNine years underground, in a century old 2,400L barrel, in a cold cellar in Austria, not terribly far from the Czech border. The near decade in barrel has transformed this wine into something else, something more. Grner Veltliner, often bulky or unwieldy, has, here, become elegant, perhaps not lean but lithe, glossy and airy, nearly levitating and alive. This is Grner at its most perfumed, sweet apples and pears, nearly caramelized while also mineral