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2006 Rudi Pichler Gruner Veltliner Smaragd Hochrain
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2006 Rudi Pichler Gruner Veltliner Smaragd Hochrain

Producer: Rudi Pichler
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Gruner Veltliner
Origin: Austria
Region: Austria

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93 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2007

($65; 14.5% alcohol) Medium green-yellow. Pear and apricot are complicated by celery, lentils and a hint of incense. Vibrant acidity is in perfect harmony with the wine's full, creamy body. Concentrated yellow apple and sweet apricot flavors carry impressively on the mouthwatering finish. Offers tremendous aging potential. Drink from 2010 through 2025. (Vin Divino, Chicago, IL)

92 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate

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About Austria

Austrian wine has rapidly gained in international stature in the past decade, mostly on the strength of Austria's dry white wines produced within a 20-mile radius of the small city of Krems on the Danube, less than 50 miles west of Vienna. The steep, terraced, riverside vineyards of the Wachau, immediately west of Krems, as well as geologically diverse sites on the edges of the city and to the north in the Kamptal, yield...
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Gruner Veltliner

Finding Gruner Veltliner, a wine known for its spicy minerality and firm acidity, used to be a real challenge in the United States. But even though Austrians still keep the bulk of the wine that they produce for themselves, Gruner Veltliner, the most distinctive and widely grown grape in Austria, is rapidly gaining popularity elsewhere thanks to its food-friendliness and...
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