Does anyone know the St. Laurent grape?
Re: Does anyone know the St. Laurent grape?
Ver mensaje de suikoA red grape variety that grows only is Austria, I believe. I’ve had it from only one producer -- weak watery examples. Reputedly, however, this can produce good merlot-like wine.
Re: Does anyone know the St. Laurent grape?
Ver mensaje de WaltZalenskiThanks, tho I’ve heard it’s more Pinot-like (in fact a blood relation, apparently).
Re: Does anyone know the St. Laurent grape?
Ver mensaje de suikoFunny thing,
I had this for the first time last night.
Well, actually it was in a blend.
Blaufrankisch, Zweigelt and St Laurent. As Walt says an Austrian grape.
The wine in question Gerhard Pittnauer Pannobile Rotweincuvee (Gols/Burgenland) was really very good. A full bodied smokey red with just a hint of sweet fruit. A variety we may see more of. I wonder if along with Gruner Veltliner it might not be another Austrian contribution to the world of wine.
At the same German/Austrian tasting I had an AMAZING sweet wine from Feiler Artinger Ruster Ausbruch Pinot cuvee 1998. A really superb sweet wine where the acidity was in perfect balance. Yum !
Ray
Re: Does anyone know the St. Laurent grape?
Ver mensaje de rayolThanks! I had a varietal St Laurent, medium-bodied and rather Pinotish in charcter (they apparenmtly have some blood relation.) The most notable thing about it was a particularly smooth, soft texture. Nice wine, tho possibly not very competitive at the UK price of £10.
Re: Does anyone know the St. Laurent grape?
Ver mensaje de suikoGreetings, This is my first intervention on the English-language segment of this great website, in fact, I haven’t been on the Spanish department in months (I am ...inconsistent), and luck has it I just read about the St.Laurent grape for the very first time ... today.
The ";Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg 5th of May 2004 Statute on Grape Varieties"; allows for (a list of grape varieties, including.. St. Laurent";, for which however the proportion (in any given wine) may not exceed 10%.
The grape appears, indeed, to be somewhat related to Pinot Noir, and is said to produce good color (which is, otherwise, not a usual PN characteristic). And, yes, this grape appears to originate in Austria.
Luxemburg produces only about 5% red wine (mostly Pinot Noir), but in most cases the qualification ";red"; is somewhat an overstatement. In spite of that, all Luxemburg red wine is being grabbed locally before being bottled, it’s a hype, as the wine is, usually, undistinguished. The wish to improve the color of their rare red wines seems to be at the origin of the recent Ducal statute allowing the Dakapo ";teinturier"; grape and the St. Laurent.
I wish to add that Luxembourg does however produce very good dry (and some superb Riesling ";vendange tardive"; and ";eiswein";) white wines (mostly but not exclusively from the Riesling grape).
Regards,
Paul
Nice to see you here in this side Belgik...
Ver mensaje de BelgikAnd of course nice to see you in the other side of Verema ;))
cheers,
Jose