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Pichler-Krutzler

Wachau

KellerbergWachauFlickental

Grner Veltliner

( 600-1500 )10

(Robert Parker’s rating: 94 points)
2018 Kellerberg Grner Veltliner 9 14% Kellerberg 2018 Kellerberg Veltliner

Elisabeth Pichler-Krutzler from the Wachau and Erich Krutzler from the Burgenland founded their own wine estate in the Wachau in 2006. Both husband and wife originated from famous wine-making families. Together, they craft wines of great soul and individuality, based on a respect form nature and sustainable viticultural practice.

All this is a continuation of the path that Erich Krutzler set out on in the 1990s when he helped his family estate produce outstanding and characterful red wines in the Sdburgenland. This is why a Burgenland Blaufrnkisch finds its place in the range alongside Riesling and Grner Veltliner.

The Pichler-Krutzler wines are pure, unadulterated and made without compromise to quality. Each wine is the reflection of its own terroir, harvested, raised and bottled without blending. Since there is no chaptalization, no juice concentration, no fining or additives of any sort, all the wines express their origins plain and clear. Just high-grade handcraft without any fancy trends.

Region
Wachau, Austria

Country of Origin:
Austria

Type:
White/Blanc (Still)

Grape Variety:
Grner Veltliner

Terroir:
Ried(Single Vineyard) Kellerbergis the paragon for a top single vineyard in the winegrowing region Wachau. Manual cared vines are grown on south-eastern facing terraces made with natural stone walls. The soil is dominated by Orthogneiss.
A long vegetation period caused by cool airstreams from the so-called Flickentalduring nights is resulting in a late harvest. This microclimatic combination is creating wines combining refinement and power in a matchless kind. Wines commonly are restrained and alluring, full-bodied and savoury at the same time, but always multi-layered with lot of depth.

Fermentation and Ageing:
Manuel harvest. 10 months in big oak casks ( 600-1500L ).

Tasting Notes:
(Robert Parker’s rating: 94 points)
Pichler-Krutzler’s 2018 Ried Kellerberg Grner Veltliner opens with a coolish, flinty and reductive, excitingly stony and herbal bouquet of great complexity. Picked at the end of September, this is based on the latest picking of the domain and comes in with 14% alcohol. On the palate, this is a fine and juicy, very elegant and charming but also salty, piquant and vital Kellerberg with a balanced, complex and refreshing mineral, energetic, never-ending but always refined and elegant finish that lingers and lingers… The 2018 Kellerberg has remarkable finesse, elegance and even tension and comes across as a rather light or dancing Veltliner. A great wine indeed.