Winemaker Notes
Round and energetic, with great acid structure, this wine is steely and has pronounced minerality. It has bright aromas of lemon and lime on the nose, a strong white pepper note, and flavors of ripe melon and fruit cocktail.
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
Light, bright yellow. Lemon pith, dried pear and succulent herbs on the incisive nose. Firm and lively in style, showing good depth to citrus and orchard fruit flavors, which reveal a refreshingly bitter edge on the back half. Closes taut and dry, with building quinine and fennel notes and a spicy jolt of candied ginger. I like the uncompromising style of this wine.
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.
California’s coolest wine growing area, Edna Valley excels in the production of high quality Central Coast wines like Pinot noir, Chardonnay, Rhône Blends and aromatic white wines. It has a cool Mediterranean climate and an incredibly long growing season, giving late-ripening varieties plenty of opportunity to develop great phenolic complexity.
Its northwest to southeast orientation creates a direct path for cool Pacific air and fog to penetrate the valley from the Los Osos and Morro Bay area inwards. Low hillsides of both calcareous and volcanic soils are home to much of the vineyard acreage of the Edna Valley.