Medium yellow green. Fine yellow apple fruit, delicate hint of quince and honey, candied orange zest, highly attractive bouquet. Juicy, good complexity, extract core sweet, silky texture, fine acidity bow, fine and salty minerality, great length, secure aging potential, a very refined Veltliner-style.
Meat, vegetable
- Falstaff (Wineguide Austria 2021/2022), 92 pts
- Wine Enthusiast (July 2022), 91 pts
"The rich loess soils protected the vines in Eichelberg from severe frost damage in 2016, but they didn’t protect the yields. What was left produced a concentrated veltliner, round and deep in umami tones, with lime-leaf and parsley notes providing lift. It’s balanced and structured, built to age a few years or to pour with a creamy asparagus gratin."
- Wine & Spirits Magazine (Year's Best Austria, April 2018), 90 pts
Georg Leindl has been in the wine industry for nearly 30 years. After studying food and biotechnology, he went on to be a researcher at the Federal College for Oenology ...
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