Still a Serious wine still a Gorgeous place 2019

The Seriously Gorgeous is a wine that, unfortunately, is always the subject of dispute with the authorities. Actually it should Sankt Georgen Grüner Veltliner but it is repeatedly rejected by the Federal Office as being untypical of the variety in quality wine testing.

The wine comes from Sankt Georgen, a district of Eisenstadt am Leithagebirge. There are five predominantly southeast-facing sites that are surrounded by a lot of forest, are quite far from Lake Neusiedl and are also somewhat shielded by the intervening Rust hills. It is above all the limestone soils that give Grüner Veltliner a completely unique character. The loose and small-berried grapes come from 42 to 65-year-old vines. After direct pressing without maceration - Roland Velich attributes the tannin to the age of the vines - the juice was spontaneously fermented and aged in 500-litre tonneaux.

intense straw yellow

Once you have this wine in your glass, you would never think that it could be a Grüner Veltliner. The interplay of old vines, the limestone soil and the way the wine is matured in tonneau is too different to be reconciled with the typical ideas of the variety. The wine is simply different, but challenging and exciting with its initially very opulent aromas of roasted nuts, yellow stone fruit, caramel and some underlying herbal notes, some pear cream and stone.

On the palate the Seriously Gorgeous A lot of power and a lot of depth and at the beginning a clear note of campino candy orange, but this disappears with time. With air, the Grüner Veltliner becomes multi-dimensional and complex with rather white-fleshed fruit, notes of a long lees ageing, citrus fruits and verbena. The wine seems creamy, but also has a surprising amount of tannin for not having had a maceration period. The finish is tartly herbal, juicy, generous and long. Gorgeous? Definitely!