Grüner Veltliner

Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s great white grape — peppery, mineral and refreshingly distinct from anything else in the European white wine canon. It thrives on the steep, terraced vineyards of the Wachau, Kremstal and Kamptal, producing wines that range from crisp and lively at the everyday end to genuinely complex and age-worthy at their finest.

Austria’s commitment to quality is hard-won and well documented. If you’d like to understand quite how seriously the country takes its winemaking, our article on how a scandal in the 1980s transformed Austrian wine into one of the world’s most trusted industries is well worth a read.

Our selection spans Funkstille’s characterful wines — including a skin-contact bottling for the curious — alongside the more classical style of Vitikultur Moser, whose Kremstal vineyards lie in some of the grape’s finest territory.