92 Points, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"Already with the estate’s 2006 Gruner Veltliner Hefeabzug – and even though the quality of this light, low-alcohol, virtual “entry level” wine is frequently amazing – one knows that something special is happening in the context of the latest vintage. This boasts a rare combination of clarity, flavor diversity, and delicacy, and of ripe flavors with low alcohol. Raw almond, lentil, cress, sage, Riesling-like white peach, grapefruit, and clover inform a wine of polished, silken texture, and alluring lees inflections. This finishes from ear to ear, thirst quenching yet thought provoking, with subtly bitter suggestions of garden greens – and the thought it most provokes is “Is nobody else capable of imitating this?” Tasted subsequently, this excellent value was even less resistible than it had been last summer. Precisely for that reason, there is little chance it will be cellared, but it will remain a joy to drink even three or four years after bottling." |