Kemetner, “Ried Karl” Grüner Veltliner

We’ve offered many excellent Austrian Grüner Veltliners on SommSelect, often with some reference to their extraordinary age-worthiness. I’m always advocating for “losing a few bottles” in one’s cellar in the hope of re-discovering them 10 or 20 years down the line. Now, I don’t know how many of you actually do that, but if you’re looking for proof that it’s worth it, we’ll have it for you in a second offer later today. But first, a youthful, chiseled 2019 Grüner from the historic Kemetner estate in Austria’s Kamptal. As is so often the case in the spectacular Danube River Valley, Kemetner packs nearly 400 years of family history, along with painstakingly farmed fruit from the “Ried Karl” vineyard, into a $28 bottle of wine. Could you age this for decades? Absolutely. Will you? Probably not, and that’s fine, because the electrifying, mineral-etched pleasures of young Grüner have been well-chronicled here. The story all over the news these days is about inflation, but it’s reassuring to