Wednesday as the snow was falling, chicken fried rice, sauteed mustard
greeens, and the 2007 Donabaum "Spitzer Point" Gruner Veltliner
Smaragd. Big wine, ripe tropical and citrus fruit, sweet green peas, a
little pepper. Really quite full bodied, juicy, with enough acidity to
keep it lively. Thursday was a long day with shoveling and a board
meeting, some leftover Gruner was just what I needed when I finally
made it home. On day 2 it seemed softer, I wondered if there was just
a trace of RS. In any case, a very nice and refreshing wine. B+/A-

Grade disclaimer: I'm a very easy grader, basically A is an
excellent*wine, B a good wine, C mediocre. Anything below C means I
wouldn't*drink at a party where it was only choice. Furthermore, I
offer no*promises of objectivity, accuracy, and certainly not of
consistency.**

DaleW wrote:
> Wednesday as the snow was falling, chicken fried rice, sauteed mustard
> greeens, and the 2007 Donabaum "Spitzer Point" Gruner Veltliner
> Smaragd. Big wine, ripe tropical and citrus fruit, sweet green peas, a
> little pepper. Really quite full bodied, juicy, with enough acidity to
> keep it lively. Thursday was a long day with shoveling and a board
> meeting, some leftover Gruner was just what I needed when I finally
> made it home. On day 2 it seemed softer, I wondered if there was just
> a trace of RS. In any case, a very nice and refreshing wine. B+/A-

Thanks for the note, Dale. I had the lower Prädikat '07 GV from Donabaum
in SF at a meal at Gary Danko (I just remembered that I never got around
to writing that up) and it was lovely. I know what you mean about RS
and Smaragd GV -- I often get that impression.

Mark Lipton

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