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Burggarten Grüner Veltliner Smaragd
SKU: 004220
Name: Burggarten Grüner Veltliner Smaragd
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 and lagerungsfähig
Description: Color: bright shiny yellow straw Aroma: already open and accessible pleasantly playful bouquet of aromas of exotic fruits, white pepper and a little tobacco taste: on the palate full-bodied and refreshing with good acidity and subtle aromas of pear and acacia, full-bodied with melting and wunderschöner length in the final
Serviervorschlag: to fish (fried or creamy sauces), chicken, boiled beef with spring vegetables, or to roast pork and offal
shelf to (at least) six to seven years
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, as these Burggarten Emerald, the highest category of Wachau wines. Owes its name to the dazzlingly beautiful Emerald Emerald Lizard, based on the bedrock walls of the region warms in the sun. The wines are dense and complex with excellent potential and a unique finesse. The Grüner Veltliner for Burggarten Emerald 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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