What it pairs with
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Roasted veal sweetbreads with truffle
The wine's concentration and spice can match the intensity of luxury offal with truffle. -
Pan-seared duck breast
Full-bodied spicy Grüner with ripe fruit is a refined match for duck. -
Aged Gruyère with walnuts
Crystalline, nutty cheese amplifies the wine's pepper-spice register.
History
Following the success of the Wachstum Bodenstein Riesling, Toni Bodenstein began producing a Grüner Veltliner version from the same Achleiten reserve parcels. The amphibolite soils at Achleiten yield particularly spicy, concentrated Grüner Veltliner that can age as long as the estate's Rieslings.
- 1985 — First Wachstum Bodenstein Grüner Veltliner Smaragd from Achleiten reserve parcels
Facts
- Producer
- Weingut Prager
- Grapes
- Grüner Veltliner
- Classification
- Wachau DAC
- Oak
- Large old oak Fuder; no new oak
- ABV
- 14.0%
- Price
- €70-120 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8-20 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1985