This Week's Selection
E & M Berger Gruner Veltliner 2007

A powerful white, combining weight and ample flavors of lanolin, honey and lentil, along with a slight cheesiness associated with promising young wines. Unevolved and full, but well balanced, this should develop nicely with some bottle age. A little more bang for the buck...comes in liter bottles. Robert Parker writes:Berger’s basic is an excellent 2007 Gruner Veltliner to keep in your refrigerator anytime over the next year (although you’ll need a stopper for it since it is sealed, as so often the case for Austrian liter-bottlings, with a crown cap). Lime, green rhubarb, fresh spinach, nut oils, and a hint of honey inform this refreshing, invigoratingly sweet-tart entry level offering.

Erich Berger – who farms some of the broad loess terraces that sit back from the Danube just east of Krems – has long been crafting some of the best Austrian wine values to be found in U.S. markets, and I have been remiss recently in neither visiting him nor reviewed his wines.

$13.99