Know your étiquette! Grüner Veltliner

Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s number one variety, covering about one-third of its vineyard area. Its wines from both its homeland and overseas have found favour around the world, for various reasons. Distinctive and versatile, this white is clearly worthy of a deeper dive.

You’ll find a lot more information in Vininspo! video on the Wachau region, where the the wine that stars in this snapshot was grown. 

For many years, Grüner has been a mainstay on wine lists around the world, and growers as far afield as the Adelaide Hills and Tasmania are producing examples that are (literally) going down well with the locals.

The reasons for the grape’s success are many and varied—and this wine grown on the slopes of the Liebenberg vineyard in Dürnstein displays many of those charms.

A hand-harvested, single-origin wine from a site of this quality is an absolute bargain at AU$40—so bravo to Domäne Wachau for pulling this kind of thing off time and again. And also, thanks to that same set of dead-set legends for the footage accompanying this video.