2018 Gruner Veltliner Kellerberg

Aged on the lees until the bottling in August 2019, Pichler-Krutzler's 2018 Ried Kellerberg Grüner 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. Tasted at the domain in September 2019.