A saignée rosé made with the traditional red grapes of Austria, to show how structured and intriguing can good rosé be.
Grape: 2021 is 50-50 Zweigelt-St. Laurent, 2020 was 100% Zweigeltrebe
Vineyard: loess, planted in 1962 and 1979
Cellar: The hand-harvested grapes are destemmed, gently stomped, and fermented spontaneously on skins for only a few hours. Only the free-run juice was used, no press. Further aging takes place in stainless steel tanks until spring. Deliberately bottled very cloudy in order to preserve the valuable ingredients and to keep the wine’s original character. Unfined and unfiltered, with zero addition of sulfur.
Personality: freshness and the fruitiness that would usually be expected only in white wines but with structure and tannins of red grapes. Cloudy, yummy, and very limited.
Grape: 2021 is 50-50 Zweigelt-St. Laurent, 2020 was 100% Zweigeltrebe
Vineyard: loess, planted in 1962 and 1979
Cellar: The hand-harvested grapes are destemmed, gently stomped, and fermented spontaneously on skins for only a few hours. Only the free-run juice was used, no press. Further aging takes place in stainless steel tanks until spring. Deliberately bottled very cloudy in order to preserve the valuable ingredients and to keep the wine’s original character. Unfined and unfiltered, with zero addition of sulfur.
Personality: freshness and the fruitiness that would usually be expected only in white wines but with structure and tannins of red grapes. Cloudy, yummy, and very limited.
