Weingut Edgar Brutler Saito 2022 750ml

Organic. A white wine made dominantly of the varieties Fetească Regală and Olaszrizling, with ‘at least 13 others, some unidentified,’ from two different old field blend parcels. The vineyards are fermented separately and then blended together. Both vineyards are hand-picked and spend two days on the skins, but one with stems and the other without. Fermented and aged in both amphora, concrete egg, and neutral oak barrels—the élevage changes a bit each year but is usually a combination of these. Unfined/unfiltered, with 10ppm SO2 added just before bottling. The name of the wine is a nod to a ‘Sajtóház,’ or press house in the vineyard, where his grandparents would both make wine and occasionally sleep. As Edgar puts it, ‘this wine is pure juice.’ We think it’s long, complex, and sort of extraordinary, in addition to having great “juiciness.”