Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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A great 2010s vintage

The prophet has no honor in his own country This truism also applies to wine and although I am convinced that many growers and producers Austrian wine and our National Grape -. the
  • Grüner Veltliner - very fond of am, I squinted but in recent years, always a little envious to the western Neighbors and its fine, irritating, sharp and mineral-influenced white wines, especially the
  • Riesling stylistics of Nahe, Mosel and
    Pfalz
    has ever awakened in me the passion for this variety. And although I the Austrian leading grape in white at least as high estimate - perhaps even a eitzerl about it - me, the wines that provide this evidence, have so far been lacking. Although me this
    Ilse Mair
    of estate year assured that Grüner Veltliner a congenial partner for the transport of the soil (in Austria?) is better suited than the Riesling. *** Anniversary leads to fine his wife out to dinner, it is one and the same is part of a good meal and good wine.
    has since closed our favorite restaurant at the time due to leave, we grabbed the opportunity with both hands to try to once a place of which we had already heard some good. The wine list was my turn explored in advance and rejoiced my heart by a thoughtful wine selection and pleasant calculated fair pricing. Long story short Sinn, der Abend war lau, erlaubte das Sitzen auf gemütlichen Sesseln auf der Terrasse, das Service war nett und die Atmosphäre ungezwungen, das Essen gut, ließ aber für den Preis etwas die Finesse vermissen, der Wein jedoch, der war himmlisch! Das war genau einer von jenen Exemplaren, die beweisen, daß meine "Lieblingsweißweinstilistik" (beim Riesling) auch beim "Grünen" existiert. Na also und na endlich! Ein 2008er Grüner Veltliner Stockkultur Achleiten aus dem Weingut Prager in der Wachau
    war der Star des Abends, offen von Anfang an, schwebende und dezente Nase, zuerst grün-apfelig, dann Ringlotten, yellow apple and pear, spice, great finesse on the palate, drink joyfully harmonious with perfect acid balance, characterized mineral, subtle and never abundant, a Sir of the "cork to the bottle", a superb companion to spread, bouillabaisse, crispy turbot on eggplant, and soft Gab with braised Parmesanpürree and chanterelle, a great wine from a great location from a great vintage!
    **(*)/***
    And as if was not enough evidence to strengthen my faith in the local variety is # 1 on the day then make a further disclosure of the same vintage!

    estate Neumayr , Grüner Veltliner "wines from the stone" in 2008, Traisental
    , light shade with clear green highlights, from the beginning a "mandatory" nose, focused and razor sharp, Feuersteinaromatik, in the background of exotic fruit basket, banana, yellow pear, has a immensely cool to smell, dances playfully on the taste buds, has a finesse-rich yet punchy palate experience the freshness and presence minerality are clearly he Schmeck felt, everything in balance, annoying Säurerückrat, citrus notes in the back taste, full of suspense, like a fine power play " bremselnd "on the tongue (if you ever had a 9V battery has just closed on his tongue, know what I'm talking about), wonderful elegance, there are wines like these that made me pause reverently, for it is great material and is exactly the components that I look for in a wine like that! **(*)/*** last I had a delicately fruity with a 2006-spec Brown Juffer of Thomas Haag / Palace Lieser so much fun - oops - again this German Rieslings ;-)

    Sunday, August 29, 2010

    Got Hit On The Leg And Now Its Numb

    Time will tell ( grandiose, Austrian) wines

    exception is the title this time not for one of the
    "
    lol = laughing out loud "- even if that great for joy really one, because exciting holiday would be just as suitable, no, in this case I have it as a working title and is representative of" Lands of Lizards elected "- which already include a statement of our holiday destination is. Although this time I was "fitted" with a Netbook and fixed intention to write the odd post at least prompt and public WLAN / Wi-Fi network is really amazingly good, it was our program yet so crowded that I have rejected the idea of a simultaneous reporting very early again! by the inertia according to the daily, evening enjoying a bottle of wine to say no .. . So there is this worth mentioning in small chunks - as a kind of recapitulation and infusion ... on the island of the lizards! holidays, holiday - at last! As a destination, we have this time chosen a wine region, whose wines we have not yet made
    extensive experience. A wine region that produces their to be counted on one hand the vines for centuries, the same wine in the same styles, far jedweglicher fashion trends and so it is not surprising that the wine is playing today at a few wine drinkers have a role, even if there are some few (? including me) are, who know its nature and its charm and value to the "old fashioned" style of deceleration and glorious! Perhaps the affinity for this drink in the wine experiences of my youth to find, because they had to do with the other two known regions that have a similar wine style and production technology. Such were my parents and I are always on special occasions in a restaurant as guests, in which the patron always called a small barrel
    fino sherry his own. In addition, he also mastered the stylish pouring from the barrel of a
    Venencia in 4 in one hand between the fingers jammed sherry glasses. The second experience I had during my first
    Interrail trip in Porto
    , specifically near the


    Vila Nova de Gaia

    . port was love at first sip and it was only a matter of time before I sought the meeting with the third known fortified wine, that from the flower island of Madeira


    !
    this island that we first not be associated with the flowers, but with lizards, is simply that it's not as many flowers as emerald green and brown can provide copies of these animals!
    Where the block, then a lizard, where a rocky wall, were there to take a 100 and we often had fun in watching them and feed them quite trusting little creatures.

    Tuesday, August 24, 2010

    Lots Of Cm 3 Days Before Period

    LoL (1)

    After I got the last rally on " " deliberately left out (of the wine ordered arrived just far too late, but I saved myself all the associations about wine, rock & mineral notes ;-) I am now looking forward to the weinreich Blog made known to " Wine & Music
    .
    A grateful about, I think, I think we can all actually a bottle (wine) in an appropriate way to combine music ..
    A few thoughts on the rally call mentioned in the wine study:
    " .. is a serious Cabernet enjoyed best Jimi Hendrix ..
    "
    Aha .. Aperol Sprizz
    ;-). Good as It would to listen to the wonderful voice of a
    the online edition of the English "

    The Observer" - about which I looking for the Weinblubber CD of Burgenland wine
    Willi Opitz
    A nice idea from the clever marketers
    Opitz
    , among others. too sweet for
    Formula 1 team McLaren and Mr. President Bill Clinton produced (was). True, the CD is called by his fermenting wine by the way "
    Sound of Wine" . Also estate Höpler winds in the Neusiedlersee has set up his wine rooms
    a place for the marriage of sound and wine




    . Thus we see that (blocks) of the combination of wine and sound or music virtually no limits. As it was created
    also own (wine) sounds, if you manage to get involved in the wine, and connect with him in dialogue. Of course it does not work with any wine, it must not do that anyway. In a nice round of Friends of the wine is so often only (incidental) companions - but rarely with me ;-) - and then falls rapidly at an excellent bottle of times the phrase: "The
    sings so downright
    " - QED!

    Good wine creates its own vibe - I would not pathetic "
    from singing" or " (wine) Music " talk - alternatively, each his head stuck in a wine cask and then listen times ;-) - so As with the Höpler
    . This
    listening inside the wine needs concentration and Muse. Concentration which is not always present, but if so, rather just
    wine! Sound! Pur! Without loud sound. Nothing against a chilling background music, but need not always be. And also appear at the many perceived olfactory components (m) a nose for wine anyway diverse associations with fragments of sound. examples? The sounds of (falling, breaking) rock such as slate and granite, and grill Vogelgezitscher Close chirping in apricots (or wine) garden, sounds of the bung, the old, chugging 15er Steyr-

    tractor in the vineyard (which I've learned over 14 years of driving), the faint sound spectrum in the summer time at a wine tavern in the " vast country " (of the Weinviertel ), which concentrated slurping and gurgling at the tasting work the sound of thin-walled wine glasses, the squeak of the corkscrew selfsame during the penetration, the rumble of the postal moth, which must always carry my wine supplies, and and and .. . And before it is too philosophical now, I go into the cellar and fetch me up a bottle that rocks really! And the good without the old Jimi H . ;-) PS: Nice wine rally logo Incidentally, my Weinreich team!

    Friday, August 20, 2010

    How To Put Metal Core Wheels On Scooter

    Rallye # 36 - Wine & Music

    (1) The Olive and I As soon as my in-laws again competing each year travel through the Brenner is the order of the day, the shopping list for them mitzugeben Sterzing
    . Fixed point are among the olives of the brand "
    No. 1 from Italy . These green " Le Giganti " draws a delicately fruity, with lovely texture zartsäuerliche firm flesh out - ideal for any Antipasti - I kilo cans to destroy in'm able! And I have probably hundreds of Italians north of the burner with its olive Offer tested, but none like this! A dream combination for this is
    Josef - Pepi - Umathum Muscat Ottonel 2009, Neusiedlersee , the tender to me already fallen in the previous year spätherbstblichen knew pale straw yellow,, so timid Muskataromatik, floral aroma has never intrusive, dry - no bone dry! - Good
    material that comes with its pleasant bitter aftertaste in the nature of an ideal type of a hot summer afternoon patio pet food with appetizers or light fish very close, as well solo as an aperitif wine, wonderfully delicate vinification, along with
    Bernhard Fiedler copy of this Austrian grape variety a strong recommendation that Zantho a track better as an aperitif, starter, multi-layered wine Bernard a trail as a solo version ! **/*** The Olive together gives this a congenial, because all-round harmonious taste in the mouth to be fed alternately by a desire to continue or olive Weinschluckerl coined! (2) stew variation My dear Renate is a master of spontaneous cuisine. Whenever it is to go quickly, or the existing ingredients of our refrigerator will be transformed into a feast, I need only my hands (because of anticipation) Grind and ask: Renate, stew please .. :-) This time
    simple:

    Two large bundle young onions, lots of garlic, celery, 2 large potatoes / potatoes cut coarsely, anbruzzeln in good olive oil, fresh tomatoes and dried or pickled tomatoes, raisins, Asian spice with lots of curry Add the pour, with vegetable or chicken broth, turkey breast cut into strips and the way in butter, add the steamed vegetables, Season with a dash of cream, fresh chopped parsley and a bit stir diced feta cheese, salt and coarsely ground pepper .. and enjoy the summer early evening hot! As always, of course: the quality

    (! Bio ) and fresher the ingredients, the more g'schmackiger the food!

    the wine to a 2006 Grüner Veltliner Gottschelle from Stiftsweingut Göttweig, Kremstal , Fritz Miesbauer (Winzer Krems) perfect, "the scene is set, bright golden yellow, open aromas , typical Veltliner notes in late reading area, high-ripe yellow fruit, exotic, a mouth full of wine, beautifully balanced fruit sweetness, powerful on the palate, good substance and harmonious finish, a classic wine from a pipifeinem year, now that I have already consume treat! *(*)-**/***

    Saturday, August 14, 2010

    Warmest Socks For Cold Feet

    summer pleasures x 2

    The Austrian wines in the price range at € 35 I have just the claim that the wines improve with storage and master the 10-year

    hurdle with flying colors. For a good year - and that can be viewed at the home
    99er wines for granted - and with the appropriate wine style (no fabric softener!) should find my image in the glass. and Titan about the same estimated, all I have three experienced in her youth as a strapping lad with powerful tannins, the
    Gabarinza
    something feminine and the Perwolff know I, as wine, already drunk in preparing young great fun. My forecast was, however, only half true and, unfortunately, turn Korkler were one of the party: (- of course convince So really only Tesch Titan, which I would like to say a few words as the winner did !. The
    Titan is the top wine of the estate Josef "Pepi" Tesch


    . 1999 to 1997, the Titan 2.te
    and was still wines with the help of friend and neighbor
    , who was then in wine consultant with such famous names as Franz Schindler, Josef Umathum, Hans Feiler, Gustav Krug and Erich Giefing as midwife of some Austrian wine barrel-like legends. Cuvée d'Or, Hallebühl, Solitaire, albatross and acted Cardinal . An understandable step, because after the emigration of his brother in the succession Operating Tesch was uncertain and Josef Tesch was fully engaged professionally as a cellar master at Winzergenossenschaft Neckenmarkt . The 1999 is the way to my knowledge the only year of the Titans , which contains in its Rebsortenmix a quarter Zweigelt (
    a



    Krutzler, Perwolff 1999 Südburgenland , a blend of mostly Gamay, clear, unfortunately, in the nose cork, on the palate then fortunately almost imperceptibly, as a food companion still acceptable but still: why is it always such a bottle and not the € 10 wines ?

    I


    was therefore - only a general tendency - as always with such a TCA-contaminated specimens: the Perwolff had a total of more juvenile with a fine acidity, civilized, more polished overall appearance
    , oW. Pöckl, Admiral 1999, Mönchhof, Neusiedlersee
    ,
    a blend of 70% Zweigelt and 15% each Blaufränkisch or Cabernet Sauvignon,
    incipient garnet in the center with "solid" core, expressive tertiary aromas of leather and balsamic, tar, bitter chocolate on the palate with much sweet, red berry fruit equipped shows surprisingly round and balanced, would have me much more tannin expected, is the firm tannic structure, combined with a finely woven acid indicated only delicate, sweet aftertaste, some alcohol, not too long, not bad, but what remains as a profile and unique character of this wine still left, do not have what other wines? For me a little disappointed äuschend , *(*)/***

    Tesch & Bayer, Titan 1999, Neckenmarkt, Mittelburgenland , the composition of this "4-blend" contains the vine Gamay, Cabernet Sauvignon , Syrah and Zweigelt, in equal shares, Ruby does, still youthful in his play of color in dipping my nose is beginning to clear, this is the finest Bordeaux-style, shows a lot of balsamic and dark hints of tar, the palate almost floating , with an ethereal lightness of the enormous fruit sweet fabric sliding over my tongue, a perfect mix of softness and structure, ripe tannins and balances, a rigorous piece of history of the category "Austrian wines, has potential for further 5 years, although I doubt that this wine can still" beautiful "show on the second day, then rum, the tannins in particular aftertaste significantly more present, a good Bordeaux St. Estephe not unlike , **(*)/*** , Bordeaux blend of CS, Merlot and a dash of Austrian patriotism emerge in the form of Zweigelt Golser from the top position Ungerberg, incipient garnet, fine sweet flavor to the Glass, the usual balsamic in the form of tarry notes furthermore, I am also olfactory associations with nut (liqueur), true rose petals and ethereal overtones, the wine is marked by nobility, a Sir, so to speak shows on the palate at first almost floating light , smooth with kräutriger wort, much sweeter fruit charm, is behind other to create something solid, ripe tannins a grippy texture, alcohol easily noticeable in the finish with astringency end, not quite balanced, but harmonious, the acidity borne back taste , ** / *** (for comparison the note from April 2009

    ) Heinrich, Gabarinza 1999, Gols, Neusiedlersee , incipient garnet, dark core, at first a little "dusty" nose, then short-term blueberry, caramel, sea buckthorn, after half an hour only is a maggi herbaceous flavor in the glass, the palate firmly structured, no trace of opulent fruit abundance of other wines, rather short and not quite balanced Angang, because of alcohol "dissolves" and a life of its own leads
    , *-*(*)/***
    Château du Cèdre, Le Cedre 1999 , Cahors - and what a cork, intense's can not be :-( was to be honest a totally botched bottle in the 99-series tasting almost overdue, just stupid that it has caught the same two copies ... was as small compensation for it's still a single bottle of magnificent Ronco Vieri, DOCG Ramandolo 1999, Friuli , rich amber color, the flavors clear direction almonds, a smell like after Contucchi from Siena (Tuscany almond cookies), wow - astonishing, what a lightness on the palate, a fantastic balance between sweetness and acidity, almost floating, yet with substance, as well as runs the third glass without problems quite easily down the throat silky , a fantastic piece from the Verduzzo Friulano grape- , provides a rapture my part, **(*)/***

    Monday, August 2, 2010

    Levonnelle Side Effects

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