I had these bottles last weekend and both hit out of the park for different reasons!
- Stefan Vetter Himmelslücke 2020, organic, biodynamic, small amount of so2 at bottling:
Pale, golden hued sylvaner from Franken that drinks like an alpine stream. At only 10.5% its light bodied, aromatic and subtle. Very precise in its balance of salinity and acidity.
It went really well with almost everything we had with it at the wine bar, making it a suprisingly gastronomic wine. It clashed a bit with the more bitter vegetables like green cale, but that was to be expected. Especially awesome on it's own and/or with white fish.
- Johannes Zillinger Revolution White non-vintage (solera system) but the 2025 "batch". Organic, biodynamic and (maybe) some so2 at bottling:
Bought six bottles of this Austrian wine at the monopoly here in Sweden. At only 16 euros a bottle I think this is a steal!
It's mainly riesling (50%) and grüner veltliner (25%) with the rest being made up of gelber muskateller and scheurebe. The riesling dominates with ever so slight notes of petrol, apples and honeysuckle. The grüner is present through that light peppery sting it leaves on the lips/palate.
Floral, bright, acidic and suprising complexity (low but still not non-existant) at this price.
To me this is just a beautiful example of natural wine as an everyday wine. Affordable, extremely well made, mix of complexity and approachability.
I sometimes wonder if this type of quality is needed at this price point to make natural wines more approachable?
Either way, I will be buying more!
by jobamundsen
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I had the 21 Vetter Sylvaner Gambacher Steinterrassen Muschelkalk a year ago and was amazing by the precision, and that was only 9%! His stuff is getting more expensive stateside but such a cool stylistic interpretation of the grape; produced like a combination of old school Mosel and new school Burgundy. The Zillinger sounds great too and I’ll have to keep my eyes out for it.