Bernhard Ott, Gruner Veltliner Ried Stein Kamptal DAC, 2021 SO071725 Mellot Hanzell Vineyards’ 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon

Hanzell Vineyards’ 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon is a sophisticated take on this iconic varietal

and this Champagne was made before it happened

making it one of the first small Barolo producers to bottle their own wine

producing wines that were intense and fruity but less structured than the finest years

Monvigliero is one of Barolo's most special sites

Bernhard Ott, Gruner Veltliner Ried Stein Kamptal DAC, 2021 SO071725 Mellot Hanzell Vineyards’ 2019 Cabernet SauvignonBernhard Ott's Gruner has always sizzled with intensely mineral character, and the Ried Stein bottling cranks that up to its most serious expression. Stein is the only site in the area with this exact mix of geology: Gfohler gneiss at the base, layers of red and white sand, chalk and a cap of loess, deposited eons ago by an ancient arm of the Danube. That patchwork is what gives the wine its flinty, stony bite. Ott farms biodynamically and ferments