2019 Martin Muthenthaler Spitzer Graben Gruner Veltliner, Wachau

The 2019 Grüner Veltliner Spitzer Graben offers a bright, fresh and stony-lemony bouquet of white fruits and herbal aromas. It is fascinatingly different and stimulatingly complex. Intense and juicy on the palate, with a fine tannin structure, this medium to full-bodied wine reveals a long, intense and complex but always juicy and stimulating finish. It's a fabulous wine that was vinified in stainless steel until spring 2020.

92 points Stephan Reinhardt robertparker.com Dec 2021 Drink 2021-2040

A 'one-man' operation in the truest sense of the phrase, Martin was a truck driver for Domäne Wachau for 20 years before he started making wine of his own in the Spitzer Graben valley in Austria's famous Wachau region. Since 2006 he has been cultivating 3 hectares of vines - all organic since the 2010 vintage - planted on poor rocky soils at high altitudes. All fruit is hand harvested by Martin, and fermented spontaneously with ambient yeast.