Sonntag Geschlossen Gruner Veltliner 2014 sw france and cedar pencil

and cedar pencil

We were skeptics too

freshly harvested hay and charcoal

orange oil and inky black soil

and bold flavors of orange

Sonntag Geschlossen Gruner Veltliner 2014 sw france and cedar pencilNine years underground, in a century old 2,400L barrel, in a cold cellar in Austria, not terribly far from the Czech border. The near decade in barrel has transformed this wine into something else, something more. Grner Veltliner, often bulky or unwieldy, has, here, become elegant, perhaps not lean but lithe, glossy and airy, nearly levitating and alive. This is Grner at its most perfumed, sweet apples and pears, nearly caramelized while also mineral