Wine of the Week! 06/24/24

Wimmer Grüner Veltliner (1L bottle)

Normally $13.99 / Now on Sale for $10.96
100% Grüner Veltliner (Weinviertel region)

Sylvia Wimmer and Martin Hugl both grew up in wineries. Sylvia graduated from the HBLA for Wine and Fruit Production at Klosterneuburg, and Martin learned how to make wine at the AGRO-HAK Agricultural College. In 2013, they combined their vineyards and vinification knowledge to make fantastic wines, focusing primarily on Grüner Veltliner and Zweigelt. Today, the Hugl/Wimmer 30 hectares are located in northeastern Austria, surrounding the little wine hamlet of Ketzelsdorf-Poysdorf.

Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most planted white grape. Grape researchers believe it originated in Burgenland, in Niederösterreich (Lower Austria), just south of the Hugl/Wimmers. Sylvia and Martin take Austria’s Great White Grape and ferment it in stainless steel before continuing in steel, aging it for two months on its lees. What they get is a fruit-forward Grüner, where its melon-like fruit relaxes in acid like a Vienna socialite lounging in a newly drawn bath.

Austria is famous for affordable liters of wine – it’s practically considered a right that everyone should have wine on the table. Though we are not Austrian, we are more than happy to enjoy this de facto right.