The texture has richness, offsetting the lively acidity and framing flavors of peach, apple, lentil and celery root. It's balanced on the sleek side, with a peppery finish. Drink now through 2024. 550 cases made, 48 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Austria / Nieder?sterreich / Kremstal Select to Add

Amazing aromas of lily and vanilla draw you in, while rose water, apricot and honeysuckle flavors define this exotic, well-knit version. Features great acidity for balance, and the body helps out. Fine length. Drink now through 2027. 550 cases made, 48 cases imported.??–AZ??Region: Austria / Nieder?sterreich / Kremstal Select to Add

A lush, aromatic version, this is also ripe with peach, apple, honeysuckle and legume flavors. Finishes with grapefruit and floral elements. Drink now through 2023. 500 cases made, 50 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Austria / Nieder?sterreich / Kremstal Select to Add

This sleek, fruity white features ripe peach, apricot and thyme flavors. Has balance and complexity, with a lingering aftertaste. Drink now. 890 cases made, 45 cases imported.??–BS??Region: Austria / Nieder?sterreich / Kremstal Select to Add

Displaying more density and depth than its predecessors in Salomon’s line-up, his 2010 Gruner Veltliner Wachtberg combines sugar snap pea, fresh French green bean, and blond tobacco on a lush yet buoyant and juicy palate suffused with mouthwatering salinity and crushed stone. Hints of pepper add invigoration to an exuberantly prolonged finish. This ought to serve well for at least 6-8 years. Berthold Salomon suffered dramatic 2010 crop-losses with Riesling, but only a small diminution of Gruner Veltliner, “and for me,” he adds, “this is definitely a Gruner Veltliner year.” Between selective de-acidification of musts and allowing some lots to undergo malo-lactic transformation, the high acids of the vintage managed to be quite well-tamed at this address. (Details on some of this estate’s large acreage can be found scattered throughout my previous reports.)Various importers, including Fruit of the Vines Inc, Long Island City, NY; tel. (718) 392 5640, Artisan Growers & Producers, San Francisco CA; tel. (415) 264 4866, and Bommarito Wines, Saint Louis, MI; tel. (314) 961 8996