Laurenz V. Forbidden Grüner Veltliner

Niederösterreich, Austria

2024
2015

This fruity wine is made from Austria’s signature grape variety Grüner Veltliner. It has fruit complexity and is beautifully balanced with fresh, juicy grape characters and subtle tropical notes. Why do we call it Forbidden? Because it is sinfully fruity and forbidden good – like the forbidden fruit in the garden of paradise.

Tasting Notes

An off-dry Grüner style rediscovered by LAURENZ V. after decades of a “mania of dry wines” in Austria. Its supple residual sweetness and moderate 11% vol alcohol make this Grüner delicious and drinkable. Edenic fruit, seductive, enticing, “forbidden”.

Food Pairings

FORBIDDEN is best enjoyed after work – think of it as your daily drinking pleasure! It’s a harmonious

Winemaking Notes

Fermentation: Stainless steel

Technical Info

Vareital: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Alcohol: 11.0 %
Acidity: 5.7 g/l
Residual Sugar: 11.0 g/l (Off-Dry)
Vegan

LAURENZ V. represents five generations of winemaking experience by the Laurenz Moser family and is inspired by legendary Professor Dr. Lorenz Moser III who earned international fame for his invention of the Austrian trellising system, which revolutionized vineyard cultivation right across Europe and put Grüner Veltliner on the map.

Tasting Notes

“Fruchtig“ as we say in Austria: fruit complexity to the max with a touch of residual sugar to give Forbidden Grüner its beautiful balance with fresh, juicy grape characters and subtle tropical notes. Forbidden (is) good!

Vintage Notes

The 2015 vintage has given us great wines with both an outstanding quality and satisfactory volumes. A beautiful spring led to perfect flowering and growth during the early summer months. July brought extremely warm days and nights, with little rainfall, and we had to wait until mid-August before the much-needed rain came to nourish the vines. A final heat wave came towards the end of August, coupled with cool nights to draw out the aromatic character in the grapes, guaranteed perfect physiological ripeness for the harvest. This enabled us to produce full-bodied wines with complexity, that display refreshing acidity and vibrant fruit characters. The 2015 vintage offers wines that possess a high quality with richness, elegance and fruit-characters, over balanced crispness and a lingering aftertaste.

Vineyard Notes

The grapes for this Veltliner are grown mainly in loess and gravel soils of the Kremstal region. Their distinctive fruitiness is owed to marked alternating temperatures of the north-south positioned Kremstal: warm air rising from the Danube valley is met by cool air flowing down from the nearby Waldviertel region and along the Krems river. While this warmth influences ripeness and concentrated aromas, the coolness lends strongly to the fresh fruitiness. Thanks to the adding of some Veltliner grapes from the Weinviertel, the wine takes on a light fizzy character.