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Burggarten Grüner Veltliner stone spring
SKU: 004200
Name: Burggarten Grüner Veltliner stone spring
Region: Austria - Wachau
Winemaker: Domain Wachau
Grapes: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Soil: poor, nutrient-poor bedrock soils, Wachau, best locations, usually steep stone terraces, around Duernstein
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: Green Yellow sparkling scent: very clear, fragrant bouquet of delicate citrus fruit aromas, hints of tangerine and elegant Pfefferle before zartwürzigen taste hints of tobacco: on the palate stein lightweight, elegant and aromatic with fresh fruit and racy acidity, classic!
Serviervorschlag: always and anywhere, solo or accompanied, for example with fish, light salads and appetizers
Serving temperature: 10.00 ° C
Analysis values: Alcohol content: 11.50%
Residual sugar: 3.10 g / l
Acidity: 5.60 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 for Burggarten stone spring is the beginning / mid October 2008 with 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 fermentation tank, 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. For example, this tangy-fresh stone spring. These are the grapes with a maximum alcohol content of 11.5% vol. read and the wines are not reinforced. The name is the feather-light stone feather grass (Stipa pennata) borrowed, in the steep vineyards of the valley is growing.
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