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Wachstum Bodenstein Grüner Veltliner

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Wachstum Bodenstein Grüner Veltliner

Allan Scott Family Winemakers vineyards are largely planted on the stony, free-draining mid-Wairau Valley River flats. The vineyards are sustainably managed, and with the care given during the growing season produce some of the world's greatest wines. The wines tend to be beautifully structured, with lighter aromatics than expected off the heavier clay soils of the lower Wairau plain.

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Tasting Notes

Prager’s stylistic signature is that of aromatic complexity coupled with power and tension. High-density planting and long hang times ensure ripe fruit flavors and concentration, yet allowing leaves to shade the fruit lend vibrant aromatics of grasses, herbs, and wildflowers. Minerality is a constant feature of any Prager wine.

Food Pairing

With minimum alcohol of 12.5%, Grüner Veltliner Smaragd is a robust and full-bodied dry white wine. Its intensity of flavor and ripeness of fruit make it ideal with high-integrity ingredients such as seared white fish or sautéed spring vegetables. Grüner Veltliner is a classic accompaniment to Wiener Schnitzel.

Allan Scott Family Winemakers vineyards are largely planted on the stony, free-draining mid-Wairau Valley River flats. The vineyards are sustainably managed, and with the care given during the growing season produce some of the world's greatest wines. The wines tend to be beautifully structured, with lighter aromatics than expected off the heavier clay soils of the lower Wairau plain.

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Tasting Notes

Prager’s stylistic signature is that of aromatic complexity coupled with power and tension. High-density planting and long hang times ensure ripe fruit flavors and concentration, yet allowing leaves to shade the fruit lend vibrant aromatics of grasses, herbs, and wildflowers. Minerality is a constant feature of any Prager wine.

Food Pairing

With minimum alcohol of 12.5%, Grüner Veltliner Smaragd is a robust and full-bodied dry white wine. Its intensity of flavor and ripeness of fruit make it ideal with high-integrity ingredients such as seared white fish or sautéed spring vegetables. Grüner Veltliner is a classic accompaniment to Wiener Schnitzel.

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“From the upper part of the Achleiten and very close to the Stockkultur, Prager's intensely white-golden colored 2017 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Wachstum Bodenstein is based on a blend of many different Veltliner clones and massal selections averaging roughly 30 years. The bouquet is very deep, intense and flinty on the complex and exciting nose, with crunchy stone and lemon aromas. Rich and intense on the palate, this is an enormously powerful, very dense and juicy, slightly creamy-textured but very elegant and almost sweet (high glycerin) Achleiten. It is a long-distance runner with salinity and good tannin grip and mineral tension that will show its true character only in years.”
Wine Advocate
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“This comes from a vineyard at the top of Achleiten, where proprietor Toni Bodenstein planted 110 different clones of grüner veltliner in 1997. In 2017, those vines created a gorgeous wine, crisp and floral in its herbal citrus fruit, and sultry in its crushed-stone minerality. It expands with air, turning toward notes of pear, peach and plum even as the acidity holds the wine tightly, an elegant veltliner that wears its power lightly.”
Wine & Spirits
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“This grüner veltliner is cool and delicate with white-fruit and fresh-herb aromas. On the palate, this is Nordic in personality, thanks to the sleek body and lively acidity that makes the finish very clean and accentuates the considerable mineral character. From the highest-altitude section of the great Achleiten site.”
James Suckling
93+
“The 2017 Grüner Veltliner Smaragd Wachstum Bodenstein displays concentrated, warm, rich and aromatic fruit that doesn't display the flinty notes and coolish freshness of the great 2018. Also, the palate is rich and juicy but more broad and tannic, with lots of power and a finish that is rather saturating more than stimulating, although there is fine mineral acidity on the finish that will lift the wine as soon as bottle aging takes away a bit of the baby fat. The 2017 was only partly whole-bunch pressed (50%), and it was racked from the lees in mid-March, so four weeks earlier than the 2018 vintage. Tasted in Weissenkirchen/Wachau in September 2019.”
Wine Advocate
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“Shows some weight, with a velvety texture, delivering violet, peach, cardamom and white pepper aromas and flavors. Offers fine acidity, and the whole presentation is beautifully integrated, making this graceful and lively. Savory mineral details linger on the aftertaste.”
Wine Spectator

Vineyard & Production Info

Vineyard name:
Wachstum Bodenstein (Ried Achleiten)
Vineyard size:
2 acres
Soil composition:
Gföler Gneiss
Elevation:
951-1,050 feet
Vines/acre:
3,520
Yield/acre:
1.5 tons
Exposure:
Southern / Southwestern
Year vineyard planted:
1997
Harvest time:
November
First vintage of this wine:
2000
Bottles produced of this wine:
2,500

Winemaking & Aging

Varietal composition:
100% Grüner Veltliner
Fermentation container:
Stainless steel tanks
Length of alcoholic fermentation:
48 days
Fermentation temperature:
63 °F
Type of aging container:
Stainless steel tanks
Length of aging before bottling:
7 months
Length of bottle aging:
2 months
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