St laurent Recommnedations from Austria

From a blind tasting of 317 Austrian red wines from the 2001 vintage held from last Tuesday to Thursday (I am still recovering!), these were the best of 32 st. laurents:

91 2001 St. Laurent Barrique Domäne, Stift Klosterneuburg 90 2001 St. Laurent Reserve, Juris (Stiegelmar), Gols 90 2001 St. Laurent Reserve, Malat, Palt, Kremstal 89 2001 St. Laurent Reserve, Hans & Philipp Grassl, Göttlesbrunn 89 2001 St. Laurent "exclusiv", Stefan Lang, Neckenmarkt 89 2001 St. Laurent Reserve, Walter Handler, Mönchhof 88 2001 St. Laurent Barrique, Hans & Martin Netzl, Göttlesbrunn 88 2001 St. Laurent Alter Weingarten, Birgit & Helmuth Renner, Gols

From a blind tasting of 1365 Austrian wines held last July, these were the best of 20 st. laurents:

91 2001 St. Laurent Reserve, Juris (Stiegelmar), Gols 90 2001 St. Laurent Hannes Schuster, Rosi Schuster, St. Margarethen 90 2002 St. Laurent, Gernot & Heike Heinrich, Gols 89 2000 St. Laurent Grande Cuvée, Monika & Johannes Reinisch, Johanneshof, Tattendorf 89 2002 St. Laurent Goldberg, Birgit Braunstein, Purbach 88 2000 St. Laurent Selection, Christine & Hans Nittnaus, Gols 88 2001 91 St. Laurent Barrique Domäne, Stift Klosterneuburg

From the same tastings held in 2002 and 2001:

92 2000 St. Laurent Reserve, Hans & Philipp Grassl, Göttlesbrunn 91 2000 St. Laurent Barrique Domäne, Stift Klosterneuburg 90 2001 St. Laurent, Rudolf Zimmermann, Klosterneuburg 89 2000 St. Laurent Reserve, Juris (Stiegelmar), Gols 88 2000 St. Laurent Waldacker, Fam. Mad (Marienhof), Oggau

Note that Stift Klosterneuburg recently released a super premium st. laurent: 2000 Reserve. Very expensive, little has been made (but for tasting purposes they might part from a bottle or two).

Note that the very best portions of st. laurent tend to go into the superpremium blends.

M.