Grüner Veltliner Ried Lamm
2012
93 p. Robert Parkers "The Wine Advocate", May 2014, review by David Schildknecht
Green tea and high-toned herbal essences scent the Brundlmayer 2012 Gruner Veltliner Lamm, the more intensely as it opens to the air. (Decanting is advised.) Fresh apple and pear on a full and glycerol-rich yet persistently vivacious and transparent palate are garnished with pea tendrils and invigoratingly nippy radish, and underlain with stony and somehow shimmeringly crystalline mineral elements that offer near-kaleidoscopically shimmering interplay. Here is another terrific candidate for bottle enhancement likely to serve impressively through at least 2027 and probably significantly beyond.
94 p. Wine Enthusiast 01/2014
This is a powerful wine that’s very richly textured and with a structure that promises aging. It has weight and superripe peach and apricot flavors. There is a fine cut of acidity to give both freshness and aging potential. Drink from 2016.
2008
The wine shows subtlety and richness from the beginning, attractive complex nose of exotic fruit (banana, apricots, golden gage) enriched with flowery aromas, vanilla spice and butter scotch, compact structure, time and aeration are needed to open, but patience is awarded with exotic flowery fruit, acacia flowers & spice on the palate accompanied by a mineral, toasty flavor that reminds tobacco, the flavors and the feeling of multi-layered extract as well as the considerable volume are balanced by well integrated acidity. Very good potential.
2006
Very fresh end elegant combined with compact structure, power, and opulence. Time and aeration are needed to open, but patience is awarded with loads of exotic fruit flowery aromas honey and spice a toasty flavor and again minerals and tobacco.This is a rising star with an immense aging potential - if only it weren’t so difficult to keep the bottles in the cellar.
2005
The wine shows subtlety from the beginning, attractive nose of exotic fruit banana, pineapple and grapefruit, enrichted with flowery aromas, compact structure, restrained power towards elegance. Time and aeration are needed to open, but patience is awarded with exotic flowery fruit and spice accompanied by a mineral, toasty flavor that reminds tobacco acacia flowers mango. The Flavors and the feeling of multi-layered extract as well as the considerable volume are balanced by well integrated acidity on the palate. The aging potential seems to be guaranteed.
2004
The wine shows deep exotic fruit and flowery aromas, compact structure, power, and opulence. Time and aeration are needed to open, but patience is awarded with exotic flowery fruit and spice accompanied by a mineral, toasty flavor that reminds tobacco acacia flowers mango a.s.o. Potent multi-layered extract and volume is balanced by fresh acidity on the palate. The aging potential seems to be guaranteed.
2003
Harvested after the frost, this wine exhibits a heady, musky nose. In the mouth, it´s full and opulent, with
effusive flavors of green bean, nutmeg, rosemary, coffee, resin, flowers and candied lemon. Interestingly, half of it was vinified in new acacia cask, yet the native fruit is more than enough to stand up to a wood that is by nature more than a bit of warmth. (Stephen Tanzer´s International Wine Cellar)
2002
This is elegant and poised, with medium weight and pure flavors of vanilla pastry, peach, grapefruit and mineral, ample flesch and a lingering minerl-laden finish. Drink now through 2008. (Wine Spectator 2004, Bruce Sanderson)
2002
It´s always a struggle with me and this wine; how much is too much? Often it seems this big fiery thing is finally redeemed by its thick depth of flavor. And it´s the wine that´s constantly trouncing all those whomping White Burgundies and Mastiff-like Chardonnays in the tastings, so what do I know? This one is typically rabbity and garrigue-y; tight, salty and dramatic and quite peppery and full of ore; certainly the most adamant and domineering of the GrüVes; 90% is the deep meaty sweetness, and 10% is the sharpness of the grill marks. (Terry Theise Selections, Michael Skurnik Wines, NY)
1999
It´s a powerful wine with meaty peach fruit, further high-lighted with notes of white pepper. Rich, coconut, last many years. (Terry Theise Selections/Michael Skurnik Wines, NY)
1998
Herbs vie with tropical fruits (banana, pawpaw, mango) which vie with the toasty texture of this wine. Good acid, sugar and alcohol balance. Mature and complex. Voluptuous. Bring on the scallops! (Wine Magazine, Derek Smedley)
1998
A white hallucinogen: it tastes of colours, violet, lavender, peach, mint leaf green, golden botrytis. Then it emerges from the purple haze, through a momentary cold sweat, to a rich, comforting lushness of dry white peach and smoke. The wine has the size and scope of Puligny's grands crus, the intensity and structure worthy of those wines without the restrictive parameters of chardonnay flavor. It's a long, strange trip, and a completely natural high: Lamm grows grüner this way, Willi Bründlmayer only captures it. As extraordinary as this wine appeares today, it's hard to imagine what it will become with the age that the structure warrants. (Therry Theise Selections/Michael Skurnik Wines, NY)
1997
Complex and bready. I might confuse this with a Burgundy. Pure fruit allied to good development makes for a more complex wine. Secondary aromas (similar to maturing Burgundy) abound in a wine still holding onto its youth. (Wine Magazine, Derek Smedley)
1996
Lovely nose. Mellow, rich but really quite dry. Super intense and concentrated. Great flair. Enormous style. Lovely. Very good indeed. This will last very well. (The Vine, Clive Coates)
1995
Rich, opulent, quite spicy. But fullish, concentrated and stylish. This has a good depth. (The Vine, Clive Coates)
1994
Rich, sweet and spicy in the mouth, with notes of exotic fruit. Very smooth. (Stephen Tanzer´s International Wine Cellar)
1993
Lively floral, spearmint, lime and apricot nose has an enticing tangy quality. Fresh, ripe and fairly dense; seamless and smooth. Ripe, lingering finish. (Stephen Tanzer´s International Wine Cellar)
