Willi Bründlmayer's Grüner Veltliner "Lamm" impresses London wine experts
The London Groucho Club recently hosted a spectacular blind tasting comparing international Chardonnays and Austrian Grüner Veltliners. Rare wine collector Jan-Erik Paulson invited 17 British wine experts to re-enact 2 international challenges held in Vienna in Summer 1998 and Spring 2002 where Austria's autochthon white variety stunned the juries.
The supervision of the selection of top Chardonnays was appointed to UK's star wine journalist Jancis Robinson to avoid scepticism about the integrity and quality of the international Chardonnay samples.
Bründlmayer's Grüner Veltliner "Lamm" 1997 once again won the category of medium-aged wines (1995-98), leaving wine monuments from around the world at its tail. Also very impressive was the performance of the Bründlmayer Chardonnay 1990, which placed second in the flight of "vinothèque samples" from the vintage 1990-92.
"Lamm" as well as "Käferberg" and "Alte Reben" are results of Willi Bründlmayer's search for the ultimate Grüner Veltliner: "We already knew about the enormous aging potential of the variety from tasting wines all the way back to the 1950's vintages. We set out to discover how to make the best out of the asset. One option was old vines, which is found in GV Alte Reben."
