Stephen Brook | The nose is charming and lifted, with ripe apricot fruit. Rich and pump, this has a sleek texture and pretty stone-fruit flavors. It’s not especially mineral or punchy, but it has immediate appeal and sufficient acidity to give some tang and bite on the finish. Not my ideal Spitzer GV, but a wine with wide appeal. Quite long. | 90

Andrew Jefford | Perhaps the deepest gold that we have seen from 2018, though not by a wide margin. Amply spicy, almost beefy fruits overlain by a warm, roast-spice note: very lush, broad-beamed, and Danubian. On the palate, too, this is the swashbuckling pirate among our GVs, ample in every dimension with lots of nougatine richness. Perhaps some of the fruit has slipped the leash, but there are ample rewards as well. | 90

Stephan Reinhardt | Subtle hints of oak but pure and fresh on the nose, this is an elegant and spicy, vital and finessed Veltliner, with a lingering salinity, finesse, and tension. This is a great Veltliner from the coolish Spitzer Graben, with a clear and piquant fruit and a long finish with finesse, as well as tension. | 93