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Kamptal takes its name from the Kamp River, which flows through this Austrian winegrowing area before joining the Danube. GRÜNER by Etz presents the region’s signature Grüner Veltliner grape in a one-liter bottle, with the 2025 vintage clearly anchoring this release.

Winemaker Graham Tatomer launched his namesake label in 2008, helping spotlight Austrian grape varieties in California. This 2021 Grüner Veltliner comes from Santa Barbara County, placing the variety within the coastal-influenced viticultural landscape that has become central to Tatomer’s work.

Berger is based in Gedersdorf, in the eastern Kremstal, where steep loess terraces shape the landscape. This 2025 Grüner Veltliner comes from estate-grown fruit across several vineyards, with soils that include loess, gravel and marl. The wine is fermented and matured in stainless steel. Erich Berger’s cellar approach uses cultured yeasts and slow, temperature-controlled fermentations, while the vineyards are farmed sustainably.

Pretty aromas of star fruit, pink grapefruit, sage and basil on the nose of this medium-bodied, expressive white. Attractive herbal undertones to the juicy citrus and subtle tropical fruit. From young vines in the mountainside vineyards and riper grapes from vineyards near the river. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. Screw cap. (CN)

Set along the Traisen River in Lower Austria, Traisental is one of Austria’s smallest winegrowing regions. Weinkultur Preiss’s 2021 Ried Rosengarten highlights a named site within this area: “Ried” is the Austrian designation used to identify an individual vineyard, here Rosengarten.

Bernhard Ott is based in Feuersbrunn in Austria’s Wagram, an area of rolling loess-rich vineyards along the Danube. The estate is closely identified with Grüner Veltliner and biodynamic farming, giving useful context to this 2025 “Amberg” bottling and its place within Ott’s focused Wagram portfolio.

The 2025 Grüner Veltliner Dürnstein Federspiel comes from alluvial soils along the river between the Danube and the foothills. Fern and moss blend with gentle citrus on the fragrant nose. The palate is bright, vivid and wonderfully alive, bursting with pepper and citrus-driven verve.(AK)

The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Steinertal Smaragd, situated between two lateral valleys that channel cool air, gives this terraced site of gneiss higher day-to-night amplitude and lower daytime temperatures. Gentle spice brings white pepper and crushed fern on the nose. The palate arrives with perfect tension, peppery fern, fine citrus freshness and beautiful concentration. Citrus is key this year on this wonderfully long and incisive Grüner. (AK)

The 2025 Grüner Veltliner is the entry-level wine at Schloss Gobelsburg, made from estate-grown and bought-in fruit. Juicy Conference pear on the nose sets the tone for freshness and ease. Light, slender and sprightly, the palate delivers a whole load of delicious white pepper at its core. Wonderful, old-school and cool in every sense of the word.(AK)

Equipped with an artist's label, the intensely yellow-colored 2021 Grüner Veltliner Ried Spiegel 1ÖTW Vincent (Edition Rudolf Polanszky) opens with a rich yet pure and elegant bouquet of buttercups and a sea of salts spiced with herbs. This sunny but high-elevation and late-ripening cru was picked at the end of October and promises a very fine and complex wine. The palate is rich and elegant yet also weightless, seamless, though full-bodied and tight as well as saline and tannic on the finish. This is warming but also pure, saline, finessed and tensioned Veltliner was aged in oak, and its almost weightless complexity and aging potential is that of a Burgundy cru. However, the wine is too tight and herbal and, later on, too charming and too fruity to be mistaken for a Burgundy, but in terms of structure, finesse and mouthfeel, we are quite near. This Spiegel has this kind of mystery that makes us ask: Will it ever deliver, in 10 or 20 years? Stone me if he can't do it. This is an impressive, unique and un-Austrian style of Grüner Veltliner that will make its way. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork.(SR)

Crushed stones, grapefruit and nectarines on the nose, plus a hint of celery. It’s cool, fresh and crunchy with a medium body and a bright finish. Drink now. Screw cap. (CN)

Both creamy and fresh, this has chopped stone fruit, grapefruit and crushed stone aromas. It's medium-bodied with plenty of texture. Dry, pithy and minerally at the end. Drink now or hold. (CN)

The 2013 Aus den Gärten Grüner Veltliner Federspiel Late Bottled was filled in April last year, so 10 years later than the regular bottling. The wine is clear, intense and fresh on the deep and savory, mineral-scented nose that reveals subtle fruit with lots of salt and a still fresh or ageless, in any case not primary, fruity bouquet. Dense and textured on the palate, this is a medium to full-bodied, round, lush and refined, dense and sustainable Veltliner with a spectacular finish that is still tight and grippy, with distinctive tannins. 12.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Archive Release 2024. Tasted in January 2025.(SR)

This is an elegant and refreshing white, creamy and textured at the same time, with a medium to full body, mouthwatering acidity and citrusy and minerally coolness throughout. Brimming with grapefruit, fresh herbs, lemons, wet stones and peaches. Very long, with a touch of crushed rock and green tea at the end. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. (CN)

This has incredibly beautiful, exotic-fruit aromas. Although full-bodied, it also has a remarkable freshness that keeps it very concentrated, straight and precise. Then comes the extremely long and intense salty finish with great dried-herb complexity. Drinkable now but best from 2026.

The 2022 Grüner Veltliner Ried Lamm was harvested on the eastern slope bordering the Heiligenstien on loess on top of sandstone, fermented and aged in 300-liter barrels with yeast stirring. Smoke and hazelnut on the nose point to oak and reduction in equal measure. Underneath that, some herbal savor shines through. The palate comes in with pristine acidity, edged with stone-fruit ripeness and a smooth, fluid mouthfeel. The yeasty texture is a backdrop for this rounded yet immensely contoured wine that represents freshness, understatement and length. (Bone-dry)(AK)

The 2023 Grüner Veltliner emerges from one of the top sites on Sonoma Mountain. It's an outrageously beautiful, vivid wine that marries varietal character with the phenolic structure that is typical of Sonoma Mountain. Orange peel, sage, mint, dried flowers and apricot linger on the powerful, layered finish.

A smoky, dense version, with a bone-dry profile that leads with flint, smoke and petrol overlaying quince, pear, sweet fennel seed and snap pea. Verbena and lentil notes add earthiness. There’s a liberal dusting of fleur de sel on the precise finish, which rings with mineral intensity. Drink now through 2032. (KB)

The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Ried Zwerithaler Kammergut Smaragd comes from vines planted in 1907, chiefly Grüner Veltliner with smaller proportions of Gouais Blanc and other historic varieties, across nine terraces facing southeast and shaded in the afternoon. The woodland scent of woodruff charms the nose alongside citric and green apple freshness. Citrus fresh, totally fluid and superbly smooth, it is absolutely concentrated but without an ounce of fat, just serene gentleness paired with springlike freshness. A remarkable wine of gentlest smoothness and calming quietude. (AK)

The impressive interplay of restrained richness and very animating mineral acidity is what gives this excellent gruner veltliner its pronounced personality. Long, wild herb finish that’s simultaneously compact and refreshing. A cuvee of about half vineyards on the plain and half young vines on the steep, terraced vineyards of the region. From organically grown grapes. Vegan. Drink or hold. Screw cap.

The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Dürnstein is picked in sites across the plain along the Danube and was made in stainless steel only. Moss and creamy aloe vera are very tender on the nose. The palate is light, fluid and smooth on a slender body, with just a touch of white pepper and yeast on its creamy mid-palate.(AK)

Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most widely planted grape, but Tatomer has made the variety part of a distinctly Santa Barbara County project. The 2024 “Meeresboden”—German for “seafloor”—reflects winemaker Graham Tatomer’s longstanding focus on Austrian varieties grown along California’s Central Coast.

Lemongrass, grapefruit and peach aromas. Medium- to full-bodied with sweet fruit, white peaches and a rich yet restrained finish.

Rudi Pichler’s family has cultivated vines in Wösendorf in Austria’s Wachau since 1731. This 2024 Grüner Veltliner carries the region’s traditional Federspiel designation, a category for dry Wachau wines with alcohol between 11.5% and 12.5% by volume.

Weingut Hirsch is based in Kammern, in Austria’s Kamptal, a wine region named for the Kamp River. The family estate is recognized for biodynamic viticulture. Hirschvergnügen is its 2024 Grüner Veltliner, linking Austria’s most widely planted white grape with one of Lower Austria’s established winegrowing areas.

Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most widely planted white grape, but it also has a small foothold in California. Assiduous presents the variety through Mesa Del Rio Vineyard in Monterey County in this 2023 bottling, offering a distinctive meeting of an Austrian grape and a Central Coast site.

The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Fass 4 is a brand that has existed since 1988 and is partly what made Bernhard Ott's name. It is harvested in the Hengstberg site, which straddles the regions of Kamptal and Wagram. Subtle yeast shows the verve of reduction, but also a salty, herbal tang typical of Grüner Veltliner. The palate continues with that herbal edge, bringing crushed yarrow and something slightly more peppery that smooths into the yeasty yet slender texture. Tender saltiness makes for a long finish on this slender, smooth wine.(AK)

This medium- to full-bodied, structured white has firm layers and almost savory aromas of ripe stone fruit, pomelo rind, tea leaves, tobacco, red apples and almond skin. Lots of bite and tannic tension that carries through to a long finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold. (CN)

Wagram’s deep deposits of windblown loess are a defining feature of this Austrian winegrowing region. Based in Feuersbrunn, Bernhard Ott focuses on Grüner Veltliner, with the 2020 Ried Spiegel highlighting an individual vineyard rather than a broader regional blend. On Austrian wine labels, “Ried” denotes a named vineyard site.

The 2024 Grüner Veltliner Hinter der Burg takes its name from the fact that it was picked behind Weissenkirchen castle. Woodruff, ripe Conference pear, fresh green pear peel and a floral note of linden flower shape the nose. The palate is smooth, ripe and rounded, with a beautifully compact core. Concentrated and fresh in its roundness.(AK)

The 2024 Riesling Ried Klaus Smaragd, from a site chiefly composed of dark amphibolite, is all wet stone with a vestige of flint, but otherwise shy. The palate is equally slow to reveal itself in its stony demeanor, yet unfolds into a bright, ripe lemon tone of exquisite purity and poise, seemingly emanating from the dark stone. Somehow naked, yet absolutely disarming in its unadorned, stony state. (AK)

“Aus den Dörfern” translates as “from the villages,” giving this 2024 Grüner Veltliner from Rosi Schuster a clear connection to its Burgenland origins. Austria’s most widely planted white grape meets one of the country’s easternmost wine regions, which stretches toward the Hungarian border.

Lemons, sliced peaches and melons on the nose of this fragrant white. It’s medium-bodied, juicy and creamy, with fresh acidity and excellent balance. From biodynamically grown grapes with Respekt certification. Drink now. Screw cap.

The 2024 Riesling Ried Achleiten Smaragd is made from vines planted in the 1950s, late 1950s and 1991 at different aspects facing east, south and west. It mixes fresh, scented green and yellow citrus notes with a delicious hint of flint. With more air, a slight element of yeast emerges. The palate is linear, elegant, bright and slender, and yes, this is indeed a Smaragd of exquisite elegance and sinuousness. Slowly, white peach and aromatic pale nectarine shine through. Exquisite. (AN)

Austria’s most widely planted white grape, Grüner Veltliner, takes on a California setting in this 2023 bottling from Assiduous. Grown in Monterey County, it connects a classic Central European variety with one of the state’s prominent coastal winegrowing areas.

A well structured yet cool and rather sleek grüner veltliner with a rather closed nose, but very good potential if you can be patient. Long, firm and texturally complex finish. From organically grown grapes. Better from 2019.

This is very precise with dried-lemon, mango and pineapple aromas and a touch of fresh herbs. It’s full-bodied with complex bitterness and intensity on the finish. Almost smoky at the end. Aging beautifully. Screw cap.

This is very precise with dried-lemon, mango and pineapple aromas and a touch of fresh herbs. It’s full-bodied with complex bitterness and intensity on the finish. Almost smoky at the end. Aging beautifully. Screw cap.