2018 Martin Muthenthaler Grüner Veltliner Ried Schon

WINEMAKER: Martin Muthenthaler
REGION: Wachau, AT
VARIETAL: Grüner Veltliner
VITICULTURE: Organic

"...The 2018 Schön is dancing a waltz on the palate, but it also reveals endless salinity, transparency and mineral freshness and is really sublime on the finish.This is a great Wachau wine that could even improve the Vinea Smaragd league...." - Wine Advocate

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.