Winemaker Notes
Pale straw-yellow. Fragrant jasmine and stonefruit white peach aromas combine with subtle notes of citrus, red apple, honey, and white pepper. The palate boasts delicious flavours of mandarin and lemon, cantaloupe melon, and white peach. These also a hint of the classic Gruner white pepper flavour. This is a fine, concentrated wine with a lovely textural element from the wild-fermented portion alongside crisp acidity and a long, refreshing finish.
Gruner loves strong flavours and spice so try it with something like sticky pork belly bao buns with hoisin sauce and cucumber and spring onions.
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2020 Jules Taylor Wines Grüner Veltliner shows excellent and lasting richness. TASTING NOTES: This wine offers aromas and flavors of dried leaves, earth, and apple. Serve it with pan-fried Petrale sole. (Tasted: April 8, 2021, San Francisco, CA)
Fun to say and delightfully easy to drink, Grüner Veltliner calls Austria its homeland. While some easily quaffable Grüners come in a one-liter—a convenient size—many high caliber single vineyard bottlings can benefit from cellar aging. Somm Secret—About 75% of the world’s Grüner Veltliner comes from Austria but the variety is gaining ground in other countries, namely Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States.
An icon and leading region of New Zealand's distinctive style of Sauvignon blanc, Marlborough has a unique terroir, making it ideal for high quality grape production (of many varieties). Despite some common generalizations, which could be fairly justified given that Marlborough is responsible for 90% of New Zealand's Sauvignon blanc production, the wines from this region are actually anything but homogenous. At the northern tip of New Zealand’s South Island, the vineyards of Marlborough benefit from well-draining, stony soils, a dry, sunny climate and wide temperature fluctuations between day and night, a phenomenon that supports a perfect balance between berry ripeness and acidity.
The region’s king variety, Sauvignon blanc, is beloved for its pungent, aromatic character with notes of exotic tropical fruit, freshly cut grass and green bell pepper along with a refreshing streak of stony minerality. These wines are made in a wide range of styles, and winemakers take advantage of various clones, vineyard sites, fermentation styles, lees-stirring and aging regimens to differentiate their bottlings, one from one another.
Also produced successfully here are fruit-forward Pinot noirs (especially where soils are clay-rich), elegant Riesling, Pinot gris and Gewürztraminer.