Austrian SB, etc

Emily, I'd love to see your notes on your '04 wines after they arrive and settle.

I realize it is tough for producers to be in the vanguard of screwcaps. With a few exceptions who rhapsodize over the "romance" of cork (do they want my bottles that smell of wet cardboard-now those are romantic!), most geeks are pretrty onboard as to preferring screwcaps (at least on wines intended for consumption w-in 5 years of bottling). But the much of the general public buttociates screwcap with cheap. But as more bottlers take the leap, and some press, hopefully that will change.

I was describing wines from Saturday to a semi-geek at a party yesterday. He liked Austrian GVs, but had never had an Austrian SB. When he asked me what they were like, I struggled a bit. What I eventually came up with was that your Sabathi SBs reminded me a bit of focused pure Loires. The P=F6ssnitzberg more like a Sancerre, while the Poharnig was more like a Pouilly-Fum=E9. That's not really fair to your wines, they deserve to be viewed in their own right not compared to Loires, but it was best analogy I could come up with for this guy's frame of reference.