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2007 Franz Hirtzberger Grauburgunder Smaragd Pluris
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2007 Franz Hirtzberger Grauburgunder Smaragd Pluris

Producer: Franz Hirtzberger
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Pinot Grigio/Gris
Origin: Austria
Region: Austria

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94 Points | International Wine Cellar , November/December 2008

($66; pinot gris) Medium green-yellow. Very clearly defined varietal bouquet of honeyed raisin, marzipan, soft smoke and pleasant vegetal spices. Elegant and refreshing yet also quite concentrated. Dark flinty spices and enticing pear flavor the mouth and the finish, with elegantly integrated acid providing definition. The long finish exhibits abundant salty minerality. This is certainly Hirtzberger's best pinot gris in years, and a wine with a very promising future. Drink 2009 to 2017. (Vin Divino, Chicago, IL)

89 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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Pinot Gris (aka Pinot Grigio)

Pinot Gris, called Pinot Grigio in Italy, is a noble variety that, unfortunately, doesn't always produce highly refined wine. At its best, in Alsace, where it's usually called Tokay Pinot Gris, the wines are extremely rich and honeyed, in either...
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