Classification | |
Type | Blanc |
Marque | F.X. Pichler |
Millésime | 2021 |
Pays | Autriche |
Région | Wachau |
Cépage | Gruner Veltliner |
Volume | |
État | Parfait |
Étiquette | Parfait |
Consommable | -2040 |
Stock | 0 |
État | Parfait |
Étiquette | Parfait |
There's just a hint of oak here, but it's beautifully interwoven into the ripe mirabelle fruit and sweet chamomile. Enormous concentration and power with toasty and dried-fruit flavors, but this is anything but a monster. Rather, the finish is bright and uplifting, in spite of 14% alcohol.
Light yellow-green, silver reflections. Fine tobacco nuances, a touch of white stone fruit, delicate hints of pears and meadow herbs, candied orange zest. Powerful, substantial, fine fruit sweetness, a touch of marzipan, citrus nuances on the finish, salty aftertaste, great length, enormous future, certain ageing potential.
The 2021 Grüner Veltliner Unendlich was picked in the Kellerberg, Liebenberg and Kollmütz sites, fermented in large barrel and transferred into 500-liter French oak demi-muids. Slight nuttiness of fine oak opens the nose and smolders with smokiness. The palate is rounded, inflected with some fine, nutty oak that wraps ripe, tart, juicy pear in smoothness and lending both emollience and precision. It is the fine acidity on this creamy body that intrigues and beguiles. This is supremely elegant, surprisingly without Grüner’s telltale pepper and herb notions, which have been subsumed into the creamy, smoky oak. This is a Grüner Veltliner quite deliberately made in a far more international style. finishing very long.
Welcome to the tropics with all these wonderfully aromatic fruits and flowers. Enormous concentration and richness, but also a staggering freshness that electrifies this full-bodied gruner veltliner. The extraordinary dense and precise finish sweeps you off your feet like a giant wave. Right at the end there’s a striking chalky minerality unlike anything else. A cuvee from the great Kellerberg, Liebenberg and Kollmutz sites. Matured in 500 litre oak casks, half of which were new. From organically grown grapes. Vegan. Drink or hold.
The 2021 Grüner Veltliner Unendlich is yellow-golden in color and opens with deep and concentrated, very elegant and aromatic fruit intertwined with smoky and flinty notes and almost red fruit aromas. Round and rich yet elegant and with rather smooth yet filigree acidity and some hints of smaller oak, this is a completely different style from the crus of this domaine but nothing greater—it's just different. The finish is round and almost sweet yet also savory, saline and finely tannic. 14.5% stated alcohol.