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2014 F.X. Pichler Grüner Veltiner Kellerberg Smaragd
F.X. Pichler
There is an international consensus that Kellerberg is the absolute model vineyard. This vertiginous, barren and purist primitive-rock terrace, which is exposed from south to south-east and located at the exit of a side valley, creates a very special microclimate. The Kellerberg vineyard is already pampered by the sun early in the morning. During night, cool air streaming in from the bordering woods fosters the development of the complex texture and delicately nuanced, usually exotic aromas and flavors typical of this wine. In fall, large temperature differences between day and night shape the grapes. Honey melon, mango, passion fruit, banana and fully ripe peach, concise minerally notes as a dowry of the meager, weathered soil, and the extremely deeply rooting old vines make the wines of this site unparalleled and outstanding. We are fascinated about the wines from Kellerberg due to their filigree elegance, which can hardly be expressed in words.
February, 2016
Vinous Media
93 points
Tropical ripeness of pineapple, mango and passion fruit are tinged on nose and palate with site-typically smoky Szechuan and Madagascar peppercorn. A voluminous, glossy, almost creamy palate impression in no way compromises what is by Kellerberg standards a fine sense of refreshment and freedom from heaviness. The prodigious finish is tangy and bright as well as invigoratingly incisive, piquantly smoky suggestions of toasted buckwheat and rye teaming up with peppercorn and Latakia tobacco. “This incorporates pickings from the beginning to the end of November,” explains Lucas Pichler, “whereby very ripe material from lightly shriveled fruit and from botrytis-affected old vines that we would otherwise have utilized for an ‘M’ bottling is included. And perhaps we should have left it out,” he adds with typical candor and reflectiveness.
September, 2016
Wine Spectator
93 points
An elegant and creamy white, with fresh minerality to the well-spiced flavours of apple tart, baked pear and peach cobbler. Savoury midpalate, featuring a crunchy finish that offers slate and dried sage accents. Drink now through 2022.
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