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Cocktail Hour Will Never Be the Same If you’ve been on the hunt for a show-stopping, delicious white to offer during the cocktail hour — one that hits under $20, but drinks like a $30 bottle, listen: After a private dinner in the West Village last fall, and a dazzling menu of Japanese cuisine prepared…
Blood is thicker than Grüner Bert Salomon is a prince among men. Standing about 6 foot 3 with a smile as wide as the Danube, he has taken his 227-year-old family estate, Salomon Undhof, to heights that his ancestors couldn’t have imagined. Salomon Undhof’s riverwater-pure Grüner Veltliners and Rieslings from the top sites in the…
The exhilarating whites wines of F.X. Pichler have achieved the kind of mythical status that only a few others can claim. And while perfection isn’t a term we use lightly, in this case it’s the only measure that holds up. Robert Parker likened the quality of F. X. Pichler to Château Latour and Domaine de…
Flouting Trends and Following Tradition This is the time of year when lunches at Wine Access get good: when we grab a bottle out of the ice bucket and take it for a short walk, over to the sunny patio at Hog Island Oyster Company. Our order never varies: two dozen Tomales Bay oysters and…
A White You Just Have to Taste… Calling all lovers of spicy Sauvignon Blanc, mineral-bright Muscadet, or bone-dry, rich and complex Riesling—this Grüner Veltiner is for you. Really, if you love wine, no matter what your preference, this is a bottle you have to taste. Prager is a producer of some of the wine world’s…
In the pantheon of Wachau’s most hallowed producers, Alzinger stands as the great god of precision. Since 1983, the family has been bottling perfectly chiseled Grüner Veltliners from some of the most coveted slopes in all of Europe. Because they’re a much-lauded favorite of sommeliers around the globe, celebrated at home and abroad for their…
Personality & Soul in a Bottle We had to elbow our way to the table, past the throngs of sommeliers and critics, to get a splash of the 2018 Hiedler Grüner Veltliner Löss—the wine legendary importer Terry Theise proclaimed was “jammed with soul and personality.” He wasn’t wrong. Aromas of honey, apricot, and peach harmonized…
“From Rock to Wine”—A Bold Statement, Bottled “Have there been greater Veltliners bottled in the past 16 years?” That was a question recently posed by Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate referring to today’s legendary producer, but we had the same thought last year when we accompanied our own Master Sommelier Sur Lucero to Wachau, Austria to…
The 2019 Gebruder Nitthaus Gruner Veltliner Reserve is one of the most stunning white-wine revelations we’ve had in recent memory. More intense and structured than most Gruners, boasting stunning concentration and a 94-point score from Wine Enthusiast, this beautifully sculpted bottle is a sure bet for those who love bright white wines with substance and…
The 2019 Gritsch Mauritiushof Kirchpoint Grüner Veltliner Federspiel is a white wine whose tension and precision rival $100 bottlings of Raveneau Chablis. It’s just as hard to find as bottles from that famed French domaine—but this wine carries a price tag that’s 80% lower. Even the winery is sold out of this sommelier-favorite, but we…
“If you were to look up Grüner in a textbook, this would appear,” said Wine Enthusiast about the stellar 92-point 2019 Pratsch Grüner Veltliner Riede Rotenpüllen. This is Grüner at its vivid, focused best. A bottle that somms from coast to coast snap up for their wine bars, it’s one of the finest and most…
For 850 years, Schloss Gobelsburg has defined the quality and character of Austria’s Kamptal region. The intense, assertive wines they produce year after year make us perk up every time we hear the name. Master Sommelier Sur Lucero sees them as the pinnacle of the Kamptal region, a small but mighty river valley north of…
White-wine lovers need to buckle up: Stefan Pratsch’s 2021 Riede Rotenpüllen hails from a PHENOMENAL vintage in which Jancis Robinson said “Grüner Veltliner especially shines,” thanks to “a glorious autumn of sunny days, cool nights and drying föhn winds [that] allowed the grapes to ripen beautifully.” “If you were to look up Grüner in a…
Rudi Pichler is one of the stars of the Wachau, Austria’s most famous region for powerful yet immaculately precise white wines. He’s won the coveted Winery of the Year award from Falstaff—the Austrian equivalent of Wine Spectator—and is a member of the prestigious Vinea Wachau growers association. Of the myriad of legendary bottles he makes,…
The formula for Stadt Krems’ unbeatable value and outrageous quality couldn’t be simpler: They’re led by a Winemaker of the Year—Fritz Miesbauer, who in 2020 was awarded that coveted title from Falstaff, the most prestigious German-language wine publication—and they’ve owned their land for five centuries, so they can cut out the middleman and sell their…
To call some of Franz-Josef Gritsch’s vineyards steep is an understatement. They look like a giant carved a stepladder into the face of a cliff, with terraced rows that plunge towards the Danube River below—and Gritsch’s Kirchpoint Grüner Veltliner captures the dynamism and audacity of those slopes with every sip. Made from his family’s oldest…
Grüner Veltliners from Austria’s Wachau region are some of the great wines of the world—and though they aren’t cheap, they’re bargains: capable of standing toe-to-toe with bottlings from Burgundy or Alsace that cost three times as much. In that category, few come anywhere close to Rudi Pichler’s bottled gold. The 2022 Terrassen Grüner Veltliner Smaragd…
Rudi Pichler is one of the stars of the Wachau, Austria’s most famous region for powerful yet immaculately precise white wines. He’s won the coveted Winery of the Year award from Falstaff—the Austrian equivalent of Wine Spectator—and is a member of the prestigious Vinea Wachau growers’ association. Of the myriad of legendary bottles he makes,…
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