Weingut Netzl Grüner Veltliner 2024

Weingut Netzl Grüner Veltliner 2024Christina Netzl grew up on a mixed farm in Austria. Grains, corn, sugar beets, pigs, and some vines. She loved being in the vineyards, helping in the cellar, telling customers the stories behind the wines. She knew from a young age what she wanted to do. She learned the "classical" way from her father, then studied enology, then did an internship for a London wine importer. That's where she tasted sooo many wines from all over the world and realized

They top-grafted traditional varieties like Garnacha and Carignan onto the existing Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon vines their father had introduced to the region

Catherine and Pierre Breton have been farming biodynamically in the Loire for four decades

but it also has enough texture and character to stand up to food

this one is fermented partly in older barrels

The kind of wine that could be your best friend

stony line that keeps everything focused and impossibly drinkable

Made in the barn with minimal intervention

Cyril is the eighth generation now

more mineral than the big

just a really nice leesy character

and let the purity of the fruit do the talking

A squirt of lime