William Pollard Jr | aka: Wild 4 Washington Wine

Grüner Veltliner is Austrian Wine  This was the featured wine of the August 2014 #WineMuse podcast on Minstrel and Muse Audio Art Magazine . We tasted this wine live on the show. You can listen to our podcast  and taste along as we discover the beauty of Austrian  Grüner Veltliner . The outstanding passion and innovative ideas of today’s young owner Stefan Pratsch are supported by his parents Wilhelm and Anneliese. Stefan decided at the age of 14 to make wine. His parents readily supported him and invested in this new family venture. Today the family winery is producing about 30,000 cases of wine. Tasting Notes : Color : Straw to pale gold. Nose : Nutty, melon. Palate : Some effervescence, crisp, lively, peach emphasized with food. Broader as it warmed with savory peach, nutty, with a lovely spike of acid and effervescence on the tongue. Some white pepper At 25 minutes: Interesting nose. Like. Honey, nutty, peppery, creamy peach. Focused front palate, cris...

A Perfect Austrian Sparkler. Punkt Genau (on the dot) is a dry Sparkling White Wine from Austria. On the label you will see it labeled Trocken/Dry/Brut. This wine is made from Gruner Veltliner grapes, from the heart of the Veinviertel, 11% alcohol. Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most important white grape variety, accounting for around one third of all white grapes planted. I was shopping for a sparkling wine at the local grocer and this bottle caught my eye (I'm always shopping for a good sparkling wine). I was drawn to the orange label and the interesting shape of the bottle. Looking at this photo, you may notice the screw cap, it has to be the smallest screw cap I've seen on a bottle of wine. I think the long neck makes this bottle look cool. This is only the second bottle of Gruner Veltliner I've enjoyed. My first Gruner Veltliner was a bottle of B.C. wine I bought in Canada last year. This is my first sparkling Gruner Veltliner - and a  grea...