2016 POLLERHOF "HUHNERGARTEN" GRUNER VELTLINER WEINVERTEL (FEATHER LABEL)
2016 POLLERHOF "HUHNERGARTEN" GRUNER VELTLINER WEINVERTEL, AUSTRIA (FEATHER LABEL). 100% Gruner Veltliner. (Organic)
From the Koenigsberg with granite and loess soils, this comes from the "Chicken Vineyard", named for the Pollerhof's vineyard that also serves as a chicken rescue. Elegant, mineral-driven Gruner, with citrus and herbal notes lifted by white pepper in the nose and finish and rounded out by a creamy midpalate.
About: Since 1660, the Poller family has been farming mixed agriculture (including wine) in the town of Röschitz in the western part of the Weinviertel region, near the historic Austrian village of Retz. In 1920 Johann Poller (the grandfather of the current winemaker Erwin Poller) started focusing exclusively on winemaking. He began by producing wine exclusively for his brothers’ wine houses in the city of Vienna. He transported the wine casks on horse carriage to these popular wine houses, a round-trip journey of 95 kilometers that took 3 days. Erwin was intrigued by every aspect of winemaking from childhood and was creatively inspired. He took over the winery in 1994 at the age of 24. He broadened his experience and knowledge of winemaking by visiting and working in the major wine regions of France, Italy, Germany and the US. Since his takeover of the winery, it has grown exponentially, and has brought the winery to its current high quality status and image. Erwin Poller is completely hands-on and involved in every aspect of the winemaking, to assure the purity and terroir driven quality of his wines. He uses sustainable methods in the vineyards and hand harvests. He even goes so far as transporting the grapes in small 20 kg bins to assure gentle transport from the vineyard to the cellar. (The bin are washed daily exclusively with spring water) In the cellar, the grapes are hand selected three times and gently pressed in pneumatic presses to assure that no bitterness is introduced to the must. Erwin has created his own yeast culture for use in all of his wines. (Importer)
Erwin Poller discovered that a local industrial chicken farm disposes of chickens of a certain, less productive age by gassing them. Appalled Erwin hatched a plan to give some chickens a second life in his vineyards: a built a portable chicken cube that allowed him to change the area of increased fertilization by way of chicken poop and deployed it in a vineyard that was to become known as the Huhnerweingarten (Chicken Vineyard). Here an even mix of granite and loess allow for a best of both scenario, with elegance and definition from the granite's influence and fruit and body from the more fertile layer of loess. (Importer)
From the Koenigsberg with granite and loess soils, this comes from the "Chicken Vineyard", named for the Pollerhof's vineyard that also serves as a chicken rescue. Elegant, mineral-driven Gruner, with citrus and herbal notes lifted by white pepper in the nose and finish and rounded out by a creamy midpalate.
About: Since 1660, the Poller family has been farming mixed agriculture (including wine) in the town of Röschitz in the western part of the Weinviertel region, near the historic Austrian village of Retz. In 1920 Johann Poller (the grandfather of the current winemaker Erwin Poller) started focusing exclusively on winemaking. He began by producing wine exclusively for his brothers’ wine houses in the city of Vienna. He transported the wine casks on horse carriage to these popular wine houses, a round-trip journey of 95 kilometers that took 3 days. Erwin was intrigued by every aspect of winemaking from childhood and was creatively inspired. He took over the winery in 1994 at the age of 24. He broadened his experience and knowledge of winemaking by visiting and working in the major wine regions of France, Italy, Germany and the US. Since his takeover of the winery, it has grown exponentially, and has brought the winery to its current high quality status and image. Erwin Poller is completely hands-on and involved in every aspect of the winemaking, to assure the purity and terroir driven quality of his wines. He uses sustainable methods in the vineyards and hand harvests. He even goes so far as transporting the grapes in small 20 kg bins to assure gentle transport from the vineyard to the cellar. (The bin are washed daily exclusively with spring water) In the cellar, the grapes are hand selected three times and gently pressed in pneumatic presses to assure that no bitterness is introduced to the must. Erwin has created his own yeast culture for use in all of his wines. (Importer)
Erwin Poller discovered that a local industrial chicken farm disposes of chickens of a certain, less productive age by gassing them. Appalled Erwin hatched a plan to give some chickens a second life in his vineyards: a built a portable chicken cube that allowed him to change the area of increased fertilization by way of chicken poop and deployed it in a vineyard that was to become known as the Huhnerweingarten (Chicken Vineyard). Here an even mix of granite and loess allow for a best of both scenario, with elegance and definition from the granite's influence and fruit and body from the more fertile layer of loess. (Importer)
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