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| WINES › AWARDS |
| Willi Bründlmayer's Grüner Veltliner "Lamm" impresses London wine experts |
The London Groucho Club recently hosted a spectacular blind tasting
comparing international Chardonnays and Austrian Grüner Veltliners.
Rare wine collector Jan-Erik Paulson invited 17 British wine experts to
re-enact 2 international challenges held in Vienna in Summer 1998 and
Spring 2002 where Austria's autochthon white variety stunned the
juries.
The supervision of the selection of top Chardonnays was appointed to
UK's star wine journalist Jancis Robinson to avoid scepticism about the
integrity and quality of the international Chardonnay samples.
Bründlmayer's Grüner Veltliner "Lamm" 1997 once again won the category
of medium-aged wines (1995-98), leaving wine monuments from around the
world at its tail. Also very impressive was the performance of the
Bründlmayer Chardonnay 1990, which placed second in the flight of
"vinothèque samples" from the vintage 1990-92.
"Lamm" as well as "Käferberg" and "Alte Reben" are results of Willi
Bründlmayer's search for the ultimate Grüner Veltliner: "We already
knew about the enormous aging potential of the variety from tasting
wines all the way back to the 1950's vintages. We set out to discover
how to make the best out of the asset. One option was old vines, which
is found in GV Alte Reben.
Another option was the perfect site, which is located at the base of
Heiligenstein Mountain. The soil in this vineyard countains layers of
different material, silt, clay, and gravel on primary rock subsoil with
good drainage. We began to vinify the Lamm vineyard separately in 1998
and since then our whole concept of Grüner Veltliner has changed!"
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