Mt Bera Gruvee Grüner Veltliner 2018
- 90
- $25
- Drink by: 2022-2024
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The Adelaide Hills have put down a marker as the top region in Australia for Grüner Veltliner and wines like this and its twin, the Boundless Horizons, are doing nothing to dispel that notion. The team note that this is made in the Austrian method which produces that are known as Federspiel, or the classic style of GV. The key is early picking, and this is their first picked GV of the vintage. The team also note that this picking is before we see the full array of spice and pepper emerge, but despite that, there is certainly a pleasing touch of pepper found here. A lovely pale lemon straw colour. Dry herbs, spices, that touch of pepper and citrus notes. A slightly funky style, in a delightful way. Mid-length, this is a flavour-to-the-fore style with bright acidity. Drink now and for a couple of years.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
