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Gruner Veltliner question
This past weekend I went to a large sale at the Sam's Wine Warehouse in
Chicago. One of the wines that was on sale I picked up was the: 1997 Josef Jamek Reid Schreiberberg Smaragd Gruner Veltliner Wauchau The wine was reduced from about $29 to $21. After all the talk in here over the last few months, I had to pick up a couple of GVs to try. This is the only one I haven't been able to find any info about on the Parker or Spectator sites. Any info would appreciated, like is this old for a GV or is this going to be dry. Thanks in advance. By the way the sale at Sam's was great. I think they have 5000 wines on sale through the end of the month. I was able to really stock up on a few Bordeaux and several Rhone wines. Well worth the drive for anyone within a hundred miles. Cliff |
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Cliff Brown > wrote:
> 1997 Josef Jamek Reid Schreiberberg Smaragd Gruner Veltliner > Wauchau ^ Wachau > The wine was reduced from about $29 to $21. After all the talk > in here over the last few months, I had to pick up a couple of > GVs to try. This is the only one I haven't been able to find > any info about on the Parker or Spectator sites. Schreiberberg is not one of Jamek's classic bottlings, his flagships being Achleiten (for Veltliner) and Klaus (for Riesling). But being a smaragd I would really be confident. > Any info would appreciated, like is this old for a GV or is this > going to be dry. Superb vintage, definitely not old (if stored cool, of course). Smaragds have to be dry, btw. "Dry" in the EU sense, which means a maximum of 9 g/l (0.9 percent) of residual sugar. M. |
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Michael Pronay > wrote:
>Cliff Brown > wrote: > >> 1997 Josef Jamek Reid Schreiberberg Smaragd Gruner Veltliner >> Wauchau > ^ > Wachau > >> The wine was reduced from about $29 to $21. After all the talk >> in here over the last few months, I had to pick up a couple of >> GVs to try. This is the only one I haven't been able to find >> any info about on the Parker or Spectator sites. > >Schreiberberg is not one of Jamek's classic bottlings, his >flagships being Achleiten (for Veltliner) and Klaus (for >Riesling). But being a smaragd I would really be confident. > >> Any info would appreciated, like is this old for a GV or is this >> going to be dry. > >Superb vintage, definitely not old (if stored cool, of course). >Smaragds have to be dry, btw. "Dry" in the EU sense, which means a >maximum of 9 g/l (0.9 percent) of residual sugar. > Thanks for the info. I plan on letting it sit for a month and then giving it a try. -- Cliff |
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Gruner Veltliner question
I was looking at another one - Grüner Veltliner 'Smaragd' 2001 Wachau, Freie
Weingartener Wachau. Does anyone have any info on this one? Michael? |
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Bill Spohn wrote:
> I was looking at another one - Grüner Veltliner 'Smaragd' 2001 > Wachau, Freie Weingartener Wachau. > > Does anyone have any info on this one? Michael? Hi Bill, I'm definitely no Michael, but I've had good experience with Freie Weingärtner Wachau's 2001 Riesling Smaragd. I'd suppose the Grüner Veltliner will be good as well. FWIW, the Freie Weingärtner Wachau are a co-op in the Wachau area. I'd also expect some kind of identification of the origin of the grapes on the label, i.e. "Terrassen Thal Wachau" (or something like that) for a generic Wachau wine or the name of the vineyard for a single vineyard wine. Or maybe the Wachau on the label denotes the generic Wachau area, then. Cheers, -Topi Kuusinen, Finland |
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Topi Kuusinen > wrote:
> > I was looking at another one - Grüner Veltliner 'Smaragd' 2001 > > Wachau, Freie Weingartener Wachau. > FWIW, the Freie Weingärtner Wachau are a co-op in the Wachau > area. I'd also expect some kind of identification of the origin > of the grapes on the label, i.e. "Terrassen Thal Wachau" (or > something like that) for a generic Wachau wine or the name of > the vineyard for a single vineyard wine. Or maybe the Wachau on > the label denotes the generic Wachau area, then. I am not aware of FWW Smaragd bottlings without any further mention, and I guess this is "Terrassen Thal Wachau". Which, as you rightly point out, is really no more than generic Wachau (except that it says that it has been harvested from terraces). M. |
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>I am not aware of FWW Smaragd bottlings without any further
>mention, and I guess this is "Terrassen Thal Wachau". Sorry, it appears to be: Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Trocken Wachau Achleiten Domäne Wachau 2001 Is that better? Our Canadian liquor boards seem to have trouble getting all of the description into a catalogue! |
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