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Burggarten Grüner Veltliner Federspiel
SKU: 004210
Name: Burggarten Grüner Veltliner Federspiel
Region: Austria - Wachau
Winemaker: Domain Wachau
Grapes: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Soil: Wachau, Duernstein, best locations around the castle ruins, mostly steep stone terraces, barren, nutrient-poor bedrock soils
Climate: The Wachau was 2008 are the most difficult vintages in more than ten years. The principal cause was the changing autumn weather, many winemakers around their reading was trembling. After a mild and relatively dry winter had the year begin with a little warmer than normal average temperatures started at the end of February were even close to 20 ° C.! The mostly mild weather (from a short onset of winter in mid-March apart) caused an early exit of the vine, mid / late April. The bloom started in early June and unfolded at low temperatures initially rather slow. The summer was (especially in July) during a rainy exchange of warm and cool days in mid-September set up a cold front, which also briefly with strong rain and led to the maturity of the grapes was delayed significantly.
Color: white
Maturity: enjoy
Description: Color: straw yellow fresh scent: restricted expressive bouquet with clean aroma varieties of citrus fruit, a little apple (Golden Delicious) and white pepper flavors, also evident on the palate a spring game of Grüner Veltliner, with lively acidity, juicy fruit and spice powerful, racy, fresh and very nice balance to the fruity-spicy finale
Serviervorschlag: as a soloist and accompanist fresh fish and poultry dishes, vegetables, salads or even to the classic Wiener Schnitzel
Serving temperature: 10.00 ° C
Analysis values: Alcohol: 11.70%
Residual sugar: 3.40 g / l
Acid: 7.10 g / l
optimally trinkreif: now
Wine Processing: On the domain Wachau begins already with the harvest of early maturing varieties for the young wines. But the cool, often rainy weather delayed the harvest, finally into the November period. The rigorous selection of the harvested represents a roughly 13 - percent yield loss, however, the late harvest, and extreme selection of grapes at the same time the mineral intake of berries and promise favors 2008 wines with slightly lower alcohol content, but great wealth and structure. The Grüner Veltliner Burggarten for the spring game will take place in early November 2008 at an optimum ripeness of hand. To their juicy fruit varieties as complete as possible, catching the wine, the grapes are gently pressed in pneumatic presses, musts on the night by Kaltsedimentation vorgeklärt, then at controlled cool temperatures in stainless steel tanks and fermented (without any wood contact) expanded.
Wine note: With a share of around 35% of Gesamtrebfläche Austria's Grüner Veltliner is indisputably the most important grape variety in the country. In the Wachau region increased its share even exceeds 50%. One of the many reasons for its popularity is the diversity of wine styles that emerged from the Valtellinese herauskitzeln leave, such as the spring game mittelgewichtige the light freshness of a spring stone with the power and complexity of connecting emeralds. The Grüner Veltliner Burggarten for the spring game grows in the best locations in the domain Wachau, around the powerful medieval castle ruins of Duernstein. The warm Pannonian climate influence from the nearby Hungary in combination with the barren rocks soil of the Wachau, is especially powerful and complex wines.
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