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Tasting Notes
Medium plus bodied with crisp acidity, this wine is serious. It showcases white peach and grapefruit, along with slight tropical ginger tinged fruit, followed by more prominent white flowers and a zesty minerality that lingers in the long, slightly spicy finish.
Body is the impression of a wines weight, density, or its ‘mouth-feel’. Some wines feel weighty, or full bodied, while others feel light bodied. Wine runs the gamut from light to full, with most falling somewhere in between.
ACIDITY
Low
Moderate
Balanced
Crisp
High
Acidity is a foundational component in wine. In fact, low acidity, or ‘flabby’ wine (as the term suggests) is a negative. You can sense acidity mainly on the sides of your tongue. Acidity generally ranges from balanced to high. Crisp acidity adds freshness, making your mouth water. Acidity is a necessary element and helps to balance other components.
SWEETNESS
Dry
Off Dry
Medium Dry
Medium Sweet
Very Sweet
Most wines are characterized as dry to off-dry, but there are some grape varietals, like Riesling, that run the gamut from dry to sweet. The tip of the tongue mainly detects sweetness, which is why it is often the primary characteristic detected. Sweetness is derived from residual sugar that did not ferment into alcohol.
ALCOHOL
13%
Alcohol is the by-product of fermentation. Differing grape varieties have differing potential alcohol levels, but regardless warmer areas result in riper grapes resulting in higher alcohol. Alcohol level is an objective number, but its affect on its palate impression is largely determined with how well integrated and balanced it is with other components.
A beautiful expression of Riesling in Austria's terroir.
GRAPE VARIETAL(S)
Riesling
100%REES-ling
Riesling is one of the greatest, long-lived white wines in the world, highly expressive of the nuances of its respective terroir. The wines are generally relatively low to moderate in alcohol with crisp acidity and full of flavor and extract. Stylistically, it can vary from bone dry to quite sweet, and with age can develop intense aromatics. Because Riesling is so expressive of the terroir from where it is grown, it can show a potential mix of floral, fruity, intensely mineral, smoky and/or spicy aromas and flavors depending on the soil, climate, and exposure.
Schloss Gobelsburg is one of the oldest estates in Austria and, under the leadership of Moosbrugger and Bründlmayer since 1996, it has hit new heights.
The estate has several different historical and sustainably farmed microclimates of riesling and grüner veltliner that impart individual character to the wines. Seeking to retain that individuality, mechanization is limited in the winery as well—rather than pump wines and disturb their equilibrium, they physically put the "barrels on wheels."
The Schloss Gobelsburg wines vary greatly in style depending on the vineyard site, but respect for the grapes and the process translate to quality across the board.
White Peach
Mineral
White Flowers
Organic
