Brundlmayer Chardonnay Ried Steinberg Reserve 2021 070226ROBUST these combine exotic root spices

these combine exotic root spices such as Zedoary

Bernhard Ott

It has heavy oak notes

A blend of straight bourbons aged 4-9 years

then aged three years on the lees — double the legal minimum

Brundlmayer Chardonnay Ried Steinberg Reserve 2021 070226ROBUST these combine exotic root spicesAustria doesn't get enough credit for Chardonnay, and Bruendlmayer is the wine to change that. From one of the country's great estates in the Kamptal, this single vineyard Reserve comes off the Steinberg's schist and loess, a site that gives cut and minerality rather than tropical fruit. Fermented and lees aged in Burgundian oak barriques (about a third of them new), then racked into 2,500 liter oak casks, it lands somewhere between white Burgundy and