2007DomaineWachauGrunerVeltliner

Sans A superb, exotic drink, though most readers will be wondering”What is it?” Although Austria has been traditionally associated with Riesling, thecountry actually has significantly larger plantings of Gruner Veltliner (or ‘Gru-Vee’,as it has been dubbed). Like Riesling, the variety is capable of a range of expressions.Cropped at high yields, it results in a pleasant but light quaffing white, butwith more careful viticulture, it can produce full, complex, spicy wines, often with distinctive white flower and ripecitrus edges to them. It’s recently become regarded as the centrepiece of Austria’s wine industry, where the domesticmarket snaps up the majority of the better examples, some of which have proved world class.