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A poised, food-friendly Zweigelt that balances charm with structure, equally at home by the glass or at the table.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Left Bank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42990053425385,"sku":"O17101","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2805\/7022\/products\/image_95533323-573d-4baa-bf00-4dc5ab3ce135.png?v=1631308566"},{"product_id":"reinisch-rotgipfler","title":"Reinisch Rotgipfler","description":"","brand":"Left Bank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42311984251113,"sku":"O68730","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2805\/7022\/products\/image_cd3847d4-f486-4be8-8b35-d8cc39a8ab05.png?v=1642716097"},{"product_id":"naken-biokult-sparkling","title":"Biokult Naken Skin Contact-Orange 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e2024 Biokult Naken opens with a sense of unfiltered ease—sunlit orchard fruit, a blur of citrus peel, and a faint herbal snap that feels alpine-adjacent. On the palate it’s loose-limbed and alive, all crunch and refreshment: tart apple, underripe pear, a whisper of stone fruit skin, and a lightly saline finish that keeps things honest. There’s nothing dressed up here—just bright, feral drinkability, a wine that leans into texture and energy rather than polish, and rewards being opened without overthinking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Left Bank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43997342335209,"sku":"O03110","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2805\/7022\/products\/image_9c42def7-ed71-4443-a5fc-df763d6eb6dc.png?v=1651521038"},{"product_id":"reinisch-st-laurent","title":"Reinisch St Laurent","description":"","brand":"Left Bank","offers":[{"title":"2022","offer_id":51921757536489,"sku":"O68720","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2805\/7022\/products\/image_410127d2-6cf3-4d80-97f4-530d003f8f9d.png?v=1642716301"},{"product_id":"groiss-riesling-braitenpeuchtorff","title":"Ingrid Groiss Riesling Braitenpuechtorff 2023","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe simplest introduction? This wine is scrumptious.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBut I like a longer story (at least, a little longer) when I’m drinking, so here is the long version. Ingrid Groiss and I discussed it personally in the past, yet I find that David Schildknecht, former reviewer for Robert Parker’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWine Advocate,\u003c\/em\u003e offers the most succinct take:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Tapping into insights as well as vines planted by her grandmother, Ingrid Groiss began single-handedly growing and bottling wine in 2010 after a brief but frustrating attempt to bridge the generational gap by collaborating with her parents, who had always sold off their grapes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“‘It’s a bit sad,’ she relates. ‘Breitenwaida is a mini-village with 200 inhabitants but despite our diminutive size we have four Kellergassen’ – the Austro-Hungarian-wide lanes lined with narrow-fronted cuveries and cellars – ‘and now I’m the only one who makes wine.’”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow my personal note:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll of the grapes for this wine come from a plot of Riesling planted in 1951 by her grandmother. The \"Braitenpuechtorff” designation is a clever mash-up (if you read German, which I don't so I was left clueless too) of the names of the three towns where her grandmother's vineyards are located. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt that time, Grandma Groiss’s dream might have been to have a winery of her own. But that didn’t take hold until 71 years later. Fighting her parents against the tradition of selling off all their fruit to the local co-op, Ingrid founded a winery from her grandmother’s vineyards. The results are outstanding.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis, the Riesling Braitenpiechtorff gives up delicious notes of mandarin orange, golden apples, pomelo and kaffir lime leaf on the nose. On the palate, it’s beautifully citric and precise, yet brimming with purity and clarity. Ingrid’s wines have always been amazing to me – so utterly darn drinkable and yet so complex. Charming and intriguing, inviting and developing, all rolled into one. I tasted with her at VinVineum (the major Austrian trade fair) earlier this year in Vienna and frankly, while no one else acknowledges it, I think she is one of Austria’s best winemakers to date.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Left Bank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45230827012329,"sku":"O05210","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0579\/2805\/7022\/products\/image_654733ac-d00b-4551-94b6-630282eae7c8.heic?v=1679688026"},{"product_id":"prieler-blaufrankisch-johanneshohe-2022","title":"Prieler Blaufrankish 2022","description":"","brand":"Left Bank","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47203447570665,"sku":"O66501","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]}],"url":"https:\/\/waterfordwine.com\/collections\/austria-precision-and-elegance.oembed","provider":"Waterford Wine and Spirits","version":"1.0","type":"link"}