3 Apr 2013
Digging the dirt under Grüner Veltliner
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See also The best Welschriesling in the world? and Some great Austrian Rieslings published earlier this week.
Does the dirt make the difference? The Austrian producers I have met over the years talk a good deal about the soil and rock beneath their feet, and their vines, and I always come home after a visit or a tasting determined to get the terminology – such as the wonderfully onomatopoeic Urgestein (primary rock such as gneiss) - clear in my head. I even have in my possession a fantastic resource called Rocky Austria, produced by the Austrian Geologische...