Frankland Estate Gruner Veltliner 2022
WAS $34.99, NOW $29.99
95 POINTS: Jane Faulkner - Halliday Wine Companion 2024
“Frankland Estate is a superb, family-run, ecologically sensitive estate in a beautiful, extremely isolated location.”
- Jancis Robinson MW
"The Riesling experts at Frankland Estate’s take on Grüner but in very limited quantities (one barrel, in this case). A hedonistic version as a result of barrel fermentation: charcuterie and cruciferous vegetable notes with herbs, citrus, blossom and graphite. Quietly mind-blowing."
- Dom Sweeney, Gourmet Traveler WINE February 2022
"Evenly balanced between texture, fruit weight and acidity. And you know what that means? Delicious drinking here, folks. Varietally spot on ..."
- 95 Points - Jane Faulkner, Halliday Wine Companion 2024
A lovely combination of spice and dried pear with slight citrus notes on the nose. Stone fruit, dried summer grass and earthy tones are supported by delicate white and yellow florals and a juicy fruitfulness. The palate is delicate but fleshed out with some textural generosity and a fine weight and line. Textured and linear yet generous in flavour. The spice and floral mix are undeniably Grüner Veltliner. Fresh bright and delicious, this wine will age nicely and gain complexity. Organically grown, vinified and estate bottled.
The Grüner Veltliner is grown in the Isolation Ridge Vineyard at Frankland Estate off seven short rows of vines grafted as a trial in 2017. The vineyard is planted on undulating eastern facing slopes and has duplex soils of ironstone gravel and loam over a clay sub soil. The vineyard is managed under certified organic principles, a practice we feel important for reflecting terroir driven wines.
ABV: 13%