Savage Grace Wines Underwood Mountain Vineyards Gruner Veltliner 2021
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Hints of citrus oil, white pepper & midsummer key lime. Opulent mouthfeel with a racy backbone of acidity. Skin contact.
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This wine’s complex aromatics dazzle, with notes of lemon, cocoa butter, bacon fat and wet slate. Yes, bacon fat. Lemons grilled on the backyard barbecue mix with flavors of pan-seared butter scallops and fennel. It’s medium bodied with crisp acidity.
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His vision is to make Old World style lower-alcohol, balanced, and expressive wines. He is continuing to deepen his core understanding of all stages in the vinification process, to put his philosophy of low-intervention winemaking into practice, where the grape, vineyard and vintage form a unique balance.
“SAVAGE” – echoes the struggle of the grape to withstand the stress of ripening, along with making wine that is true to the grape, site, and vintage.
“GRACE” – also his wife’s name, is symbolizing what he hopes to achieve as the end result a wine that is delicate, balanced, approachable yet expressive.
Fun to say and delightfully easy to drink, Grüner Veltliner calls Austria its homeland. While some easily quaffable Grüners come in a one-liter—a convenient size—many high caliber single vineyard bottlings can benefit from cellar aging. Somm Secret—About 75% of the world’s Grüner Veltliner comes from Austria but the variety is gaining ground in other countries, namely Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the United States.
Straddling the Columbia River Gorge with vineyards in both Washington and Oregon, this 40 mile stretch of vineyards, starting about an hour drive east of the city of Portland, grows a wide variety of grapes, including everything from Syrah to Gewürztraminer.