Rockwerk Niederosterreich Gruner Veltliner 2023 yamhill-carlton this combines Valpolicella Ripasso's usual

this combines Valpolicella Ripasso's usual suite of baking spices and figs with crunchy fresh berries

valued at $28 retail

80% Merlot

Drink 2025-2045

Rockwerk Niederosterreich Gruner Veltliner 2023 yamhill-carlton this combines Valpolicella Ripasso's usualIn lower Austria, wine comes from rocks. Vineyards all along the Danube are planted in thin layers of topsoil stretched across a complex strata of granite, schist, gneiss and basalt. Thus, the roots of any given Austrian vine are probably in direct contact with stone somewhere underground. In the eyes of sommelier Jesse Becker, winemakers Christian Ress and Markus Huber, that constant minerality animates Austrian wines, and has inspired this