The Rét originates from Alexander Koppitsch's Easy-Drinking-Series, which Koppitsch aficionados still remember under the name "authentic wines". Rét is Hungarian and means grassland, which in turn is a reference to the fact that cattle used to graze where Zweigelt and St. Laurent grow today.
The...
Viticulture also has to do with responsibility. This applies equally to winegrowers and consumers. The fact that, for example, 60% or, in other figures, 90000000 kilos of continental fungicides are used on Europe's vineyards, even though only 5% of agricultural land is planted with vines, should ...
The Gräfin is the most subtle and elegant interpretation of Sauvignon Blanc that can be found between Leutschach and Sancerre in an orange colour. And an example of how the region can also be reflected in mash-fermented wines.
As with the Graf, the vines of the Gräfin are rooted in the centre o...
Roland Tauss thankfully never uprooted his Pinot Gris and replaced it with Gelber Muskateller. Even in its darkest times, he nurtured it carefully and made excellent, classic white wines that were fun to drink and had strength and depth. A few years ago, he then decided to break out of the usual ...
The Gewürztraminer from Semikolon has its origins in a night in 2017 when wine was drunk but also discussed. Katharina Salzgeber (cellar master at Alwin & Steffi Jurtschitsch) and Nikolaus Saahs (owner of Nikolaihof), the two protagonists of the evening, thought, among other things, about the...
According to HP Harrer, Neuburger belongs in northern Burgenland just as Sangiovese belongs in Tuscany. Unfortunately, only very few people see it that way, but the few Neuburger specimens that do exist seem to confirm his opinion.
For the sake of Neuburger, HP has thrown away his original philos...
The upper part of the Lange Ohn vineyard in Neusiedl provides the chalky base for HP Harrer's Blaufränkisch, which is characterised by cool westerly winds. The rest is made up of small, healthy berries and a precise winemaker's signature, which can be roughly summarised under the keywords: biodyn...
Wild forest berries, juicy cherries and fresh grapefruit. Cool, animating and inviting. Uncomplicated and light-hearted. A summery rosé, easy to drink and revitalising.
Data sheet
Grape variety: Zweigelt & Cabernet Sauvignon
Vineyard: Heideboden
Harvest: By hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | w...
What happens when you simply let the soil, climate and your own handwriting speak for itself in a wine and leave out the grape variety(ies) and the weather? Some would say that this would be pure terroir - we don't say that, but we still find the experiment exciting and the wine great.
What we ...
In 2010, Niki Moser decided to add a sparkling wine to his excellent wine series. The project was ambitious right from the start. He chose Chardonnay as the grape variety. And even though the subsoil and climate in the single vineyard Hollabern, a gravelly site in the Burgenland lowlands, has lit...
The Hohenegg is steep and partly exposed vineyard from south-east to south-west. The soils are based on barren Opok, the classic limestone marl of southern Styria, and are influenced by both cool northern winds and Mediterranean air masses. The berries up there are somewhat smaller than usual and...
Zweigelt was at the top of our personal list of outlawed grape varieties for years. This was followed by Welschriesling, Gelber Muskateller and a few more varieties that have long since received their absolution, as well as Zweigelt. We believe that we have little to do with age milds, but mainly...
The Sauvignon Blanc Graf is an example of how Sauvignon can be when you let nature have the first and last word. Not that this isn't the case with Sepp Muster's other wines. With his Sauvignon Blanc, however, it is even more noticeable, as it differs so clearly from the many versions of the varie...
data sheet
Grape variety: Zweigelt, Pinot Noir
Harvest: By hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeast
Ageing: Stainless steel tanks
Filtration: no
SO₂: <50mg/l
Alcohol content: 10%
Closure: -
Drinking temperature: 9-11 ° C
Perfect drinking maturity: From now on - 2025
Content and price per l...
You can only take your hat off to Niki Moser. He and his team cultivate 24 hectares in Rohrendorf in the Kremstal using biodynamic methods, with a further 27 hectares 150 kilometres further south in Apetlon, in the Pannonian Plain. The effort involved is enormous, but now - after well over a deca...