A question arose. Around Vienna over the past 20 years, I remember hearing
the second word of Grüner Veltliner spoken with light stress on the first
syllable -- VELTliner, in German (like the stress of modern trade name
VELcro in English). (In English phonetic spelling, the word might be
written FELT-leener.)

Recently online, some people report another pronunciation in German,
veltLINer . Possibly these pronunciations are regional, within Austria?

Could Hr. Prónay in particular comment on this? (While it seems that many
people hold opinions, I knew of Hr. Prónay as a leading Austrian food-wine
journalist for many years before he appeared on newsgroups.)

I did, of course, first check online archives of AFW and its predecessors as
wine newsgroup (rec.food.drink and net.wines). Without luck, though I
report that the first mention of Grüner Veltliner on these newsgroups
appeared 1983 and can be currently read he

http://tinyurl.com/9r3c5

Also, an excellent thread on Grüner Veltliner's origins and variations, and
other varietal names, appeared May 2000 and can be viewed currently here
(use "show options" link to see rest of the thread):

http://tinyurl.com/cyyzo

That thread includes many contributions from The Usual Suspects.


-- Max