Perfect Stranger - Kremstal (Austria) Grüner Veltliner
Perfect Stranger (formerly Beautiful Stranger) is the second release of our Grüner Veltliner - Austria's indigenous white grape variety. It has been cultivated there since the Roman age, and it makes a delicious dry, aromatic style of white wine. If you need a point of reference, maybe take dry Riesling then add spice and some palate weight - but it's not Riesling. Quite simply, Grüner Veltliner makes exceptional complex and thought provoking white wine that tastes like, well, Grüner Veltliner! This wine is made in collaboration with friend Berthold Salomon, who's family has been making wines in Kremstal since 1792. Salomon Undhof remains one of Austia's most respected and successful wine producers and you can find out more about them by visiting www.salomonwines.com
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Production Notes: Grüner Veltliner grapes for this wine are from three of Berthold Salomon’s vineyards near Krems in Austria. Fifty percent from the terraced Wachtberg vineyard located alongside the Danube River above Krems. The balance from the more elevated and later ripening Sandgrube and Weinzierlberg vineyards In order to accentuate the purity of flavour provided by this grape variety and the unique growing region, the fruit was hand picked before the bunches were de-stemmed and crushed in preparation for fermentation in stainless steel. The wine was fermented to dry at a controlled temperature of between 12 -15 degrees prior to fining, filtration and bottling at the historic Salomon Estate, established in 1792. Grüner Veltliner is a unique white wine which drinks beautifully in it's youth, but like all great grape varieties, it also possess the ability to develop in bottle for an extended period of time with careful cellaring.
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