TOKYO WINE SOCIETY TASTING

Austrian Wine

March 24, 2006

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The place held:
the Restaurant Cuisine 219,
Southern Castle Building B1
2-19-3 Minami-Aoyama
Minato-ku, Tokyo

Sellected by: Mike san.

We had six Gruner Veltliner wines and 3 Reislings. As for vintage, We had the choice between 2003 and 2004 in many cases but we were told that 2004 is a better, or at least more representative, vintage. 2003 was a very hot year and the wines are more candied and fruit forward than usual it's said. Since we are looking for a typical expression of Austria we went with the 2004 line-up. We couldn't resiste the '95. The result was as below; @



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No

Wine

Year

Grape

Region

Yen

Shop

Points

Rank

1s

2s

Ls

A

NIKOLAIHOF Gruner Veltliner Im Weingebirge Federspiel

2004

Gruner Veltliner

Austria

2,480

Ginzaya

57

2

2

3

1

B

PRAGER Riesling Steinriegl Federspiel

2004

Reislings

Austria

2,980

Ginzaya

61

3

1

3

0

C

EMMERICH KNOLL Gruner Veltliner Ried Kreutles Federspiel

2004

Gruner Veltliner

Austria

2,480

Ginzaya

69

5

0

2

2

D

NIKOLAIHOF Riesling Vom Stein Smaragd

1995

Reislings

Austria

5,200

Ginzaya

84

8

2

0

3

E

BRUNDLMAYER Gruner Veltliner Ried Kaferberg

2003

Gruner Veltliner

Austria

5,600

Ginzaya

77

6

1

1

1

F

F.X.PICHLER Gruner Veltliner Loibner Berg Smaragd

2004

Gruner Veltliner

Austria

4,600

Ginzaya

64

4

1

1

0

G

F.X.PICHLER Riesling Von den Terrassen Federspiel

2004

Reislings

Austria

2,780

Ginzaya

49

1

4

3

0

H

HIRTZBERGER Gruner Veltliner Rotes Tor Federspiel

2004

Gruner Veltliner

Austria

2,380

Ginzaya

79

7

2

0

2

I

PRAGER Gruner Veltliner Hinter der Burg Federspiel

2004

Gruner Veltliner

Austria

2,480

Ginzaya

90

9

0

1

3

Regends
Rank: 1=Most Prefered, 9=Worst,
1s:No of attendee prefered best,
2s: No of attendee chose second best,
Ls:No of atendee ranked worst

Dish served by the Restaurant Budo-ya


Appetizer


Risotto


Main


Dessert

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