We all want to open wines that please us and those we share them
with. It does our soul good and it
spreads the love around. Of course when
we are the recipient, we just want to do the same. That’s how the world of wine works!
We particularly enjoyed a 2009 Pittnauer St Laurent ‘Alte
Reben’ about a month ago. Being an old
vine expression, it was pretty serious, but balanced accessibility with
structure and sophistication. It was
clean but still funky. You can expect
such things from this specialist biodynamic St Laurent producer who operates on
the eastern shores of the Neusiedlersee in Austria. And it went down well with our guests.
So this time, at home, just SWMBO and I, we followed up with
the more approachable 2012 Pittnauer ‘Dorflagen’
St Laurent, a village wine, given less than a year in barrel. As could be expected, this was a
fruit-focussed wine, with sweet and succulent savoury dark red berry fruits,
with the game, herb and savoury spice that the variety gives. Modest extraction, suppleness and juicy
freshness ruled the day. We know it
would have pleased the crowd if they had been on hand.
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