Bernhard Ott, Gruner Veltliner Ried Stein Kamptal DAC, 2021 SO071725 Mellot with electric acidity cutting through

with electric acidity cutting through the wine’s depth and texture

The Willow Vineyard sits at the cooler northern end

and a touch of herbs

making it one of the first small Barolo producers to bottle their own wine

Bernhard Ott, Gruner Veltliner Ried Stein Kamptal DAC, 2021 SO071725 Mellot with electric acidity cutting throughBernhard Ott's Gruner has always sizzled with intensely mineral character, and the Ried Stein bottling cranks that up to its most serious expression. Stein is the only site in the area with this exact mix of geology: Gfohler gneiss at the base, layers of red and white sand, chalk and a cap of loess, deposited eons ago by an ancient arm of the Danube. That patchwork is what gives the wine its flinty, stony bite. Ott farms biodynamically and ferments