2015 Gruner Veltliner Renner
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The 2015 Ried Renner 1ÖTW offers a rich and perfectly ripe but still fine, elegant and flinty bouquet. The attack on the palate is fresh and piquant; the second impression is rich, ripe, juicy, pretty round, a bit sweet and intense due to the rich extract. However, the freshness does not move and takes the vintage on its wings, carrying it to a long and nicely tannic but also pure and salty finish. This is great Grüner Veltliner with food, even though it is a bit biter on the finish at the moment.
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Julia Harding MW, jancisrobinson.com
Stephan Reinhardt, Wine Advocate
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This installment of Moosbrugger’s Renner – last tasted soon after it was assembled in June 2016 ahead of midsummer bottling – was raised 70 percent in casks. The cooling green herbal and crunchy snap pea elements found in the corresponding Steinsetz are accentuated here, and the fruit takes a more northerly, not to mention brighter, turn, incorporating ripe muskmelon, but favoring white peach and rhubarb. An underlying savor of tobacco and lentil lends mouthwatering low tones to the proceedings. There is a flatteringly silken texture and an abundance of glycerol, but this is sleek in comparison with the Steinsetz. Cress and pepper are allied to a remarkable array of crystalline, alkaline, stony and saline mineral elements on a vibrant finish that milks the salivary glands and leaves the tongue tingling.
Not yet very expressive but there are hints of pepper and pear, perfectly ripe, freshly picked purity. Much more spicy on the palate with a savoury, almost grainy quality. Perfect example of Grüner and very long rather than super-intense. (JH)