Grüner Veltliner Spitzer Graben 2019 1500ml – Martin Muthenthaler

The Spitzer Graben site is one of the most extreme in the Wachau. The base alone is around 100 metres higher than most other sites, and the slope is steeply uphill, dry stone wall after dry stone wall. Untypically, the climate is hardly influenced by the Danube, and so even in summer it gets cool in the afternoon. The primary rock soils are poor and partly without any humus. The Grüner Veltliner is fermented spontaneously and matured in large 850-litre wooden barrels.

Slightly cloudy yellow with clear green reflections.

The 2019 Grüner Veltliner Spitzer Graben is still somewhat reserved due to its youth and larger format. So put it in the carafe, and at first it shows smoky, delicately bacony notes as well as liquorice, walnut and aniseed. The more air it gets, the more it reveals its wonderfully juicy fruit of dried apricot, baked apple, kumquat and rosehip. Each time you smell it, new and exciting aromas emerge, nettle and chicory are also part of the game.

On the palate, it attacks with wonderful freshness, which is due to its acidity and minerality. Its invigorating peppery spiciness, its malty notes, its yeasty density and its melting can also be seen. A wine that loves earthy , spicy and original cuisine - and it loves it. Perfect size for open serving in the gastronomy, for the family celebration and for people with great thirst and drinking pleasure.