Hi all. We had some time ago a number of threads on the merits of Grüner Veltliner which led me to buy a couple of bottles, partly on the recommendations from Michael Pronay, our resident expert on these wines. Tonight I opened this bottle and found the following: Restrained flavour, only after a while opening to reveal some spiced apples. Nice taste of the same, pretty good length and a pleasing dry minerality. Quite long aftertaste and to me this, like other GVs, tastes more of dry grass, like hay in a barn. (Any other with that judgement?) Compared to some other wines I know better, namely the dry Rieslings of Germany, I'd have to say that this one is not a knockout. Not bad at all, mind you, but I failed to find the expected richness, power and concentration from a Smaragd quality wine. Anders
TN: Alzinger Loibner Mühlpoint GV Smaragd 2001
Jan 14, 2006
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Mühlpoint is not Leo Alzinger's veltliner. Try to get hold of Steinertal, Loibenberg or the "Reserve" without site name. That makes at least three wines the producer sees above this one. (And there could have been a very slight interferrence due to low-level TCA taint, but that's another story.)
M.
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