2017 Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc
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Classified as GSTK (equivalent to grand cru) in the private association known as the Steirische Terroir- and Klassikweingüter. South-facing so warmer than the Grassnitzberg but open towards Slovenia, therefore windy. Marl on limestone. Fermented in big oak and unfiltered after 18 months’ ageing. RS 1.1 g/l, TA 6.2 g/l. Smells much riper and more marked by the big oak – spicy, slightly toasty – than the Grassnitzberg. This is creamier, fuller in the mouth but still has a long stony and mouth-watering finish. Really tangy with citrus at the very end. (JH)
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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Bottled in late April 2019, the 2017 Ried Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc offers a deep and coolish, spicy, flinty and herbal, very intense but well-defined and elegant bouquet with interwoven fruit, juniper and stony aromas. Terribly deep and spicy, full-bodied and powerful, with great purity, lingering salinity and mineral tension, this is a dense and powerful, tightly knit and concentrated, phenolic, structured Ziergegg with great aging potential. Tasted in May 2019.