Style: Red Wine
Vintage: 2017
ABV: 12%
Region: Burgenland
Country: Austria
Varietals: Zweigelt & Cabernet Franc
Pairings: Any gamier meat like rabbit, deer, elk, antelope, boar sausages or even something more mainstream like roasted or grilled lamb would complement this leaner tart red fruit styled wine. These wines are pure gems!
Winemaking: spontaneous fermentation in open-top vats, very gentle press with low juice yield, aging in bigger neutral Stockinger bigger barrels. No filtration, no fining, no sulfur.
Vinification Method: Grapes are hand harvested, destemmed, and crushed by foot. The juice ferments in large barrels with indigenous yeast and no racking. It spends 2 years aging in 500 and 1200-liter barrels and is bottled without fining or filtering and no addition of sulfur.