Brundlmayer Gruner Veltliner Kamptaler Terrassen 2020

A tight, focused white with dried apple, honey and flint. Some stone, too. Full-bodied, creamy and minerally with dried mango and pear. So subtle and complex. From organically grown grapes.

Yeast and a subtle note of sage are timid on the nose. The light palate then adds green-pear freshness, while an edge of white pepper completes this picture of subtlety and freshness. This is brisk and crisp with a real refreshment factor.

Yeast and a subtle note of sage are timid on the nose. The light palate then adds green-pear freshness, while an edge of white pepper completes this picture of subtlety and freshness. This is brisk and crisp with a real refreshment factor. Terry Theise Estate Selections.

Smoke aromas extend on the palate to join hints of toasted hazelnut, which surrounds yellow apple and quince flavors, all underscored by sea salt detail in this white. This shows great harmony overall, with good intensity of flavors and acidity, leaving a salty impression on the finish. Drink now through 2027.

Ripe pear and honeydew melon generously inform the nose as well as the ingratiatingly polished, caressing palate. Happily, crunchy evocations of cucumber and fresh green bean along with an abundance of green herbal and stony nuances guarantee a finish of invigoration as well as refreshment, while a sweet-saline savor reminiscent of raw scallop activates the salivary glands. (An amusing but annoying technicality that typifies the latest development in Austrian labeling: The expression 'Kamptaler Terrassen,' with which this bottling has long been labeled, was decreed an inadmissible geographical designation. But after Bründlmayer demonstrated that all of the vines supplying it are indeed on terraces, the authorities allowed that part to stand. (DS) (2/2017)