If you’re going to drink Welschriesling, then it should be the one from Roland Tauss. He ignores the common practice of turning it into unripe, neutral, utterly insignificant mass-produced wine and instead creates a wine that shines both as an elegant food companion and as a subtle, refined representative of its variety.
He achieves this by keeping yields in check, treating his vineyards as gardens rather than plantations, harvesting his grapes at the right moment, and vinifying them with craftsmanship and without unnecessary intervention.
He doesn’t release the fully fermented wine immediately; instead, he grants it a year of maturation on fine lees in wooden barrels. He doesn’t fine or filter it, and for a few years now he hasn’t added sulfur either — in short: Roland Tauss does everything to turn Welschriesling into a vibrant and inviting experience.
Style & Aromas
Playful, light, precise, and extremely agile. Herbs and stones. Subtle fruit. Direct, dynamic, and full of drive. Persuades with freshness and clarity. Cool and structured on the palate.
Data sheet
Grape variety: Welschriesling
Vineyard: Opok
reading: By hand
Fermentation: spontaneous | wild yeast
expansion: Over a year in used wooden barrels
Filtration: no
SO₂: unadulterated
Alcohol content: 13%
Closure: Natural corks
Drinking temperature: 10-12 ° C
Perfect drinking maturity: From now on - 2030
Content and price per liter: 0.75 l/(€ 24.75/l)
Maxim: All winemakers listed at Vinonudo work in their vineyards with compost, organic fertilizer and natural preparations and do without the use of herbicides, pesticides and artificial fertilizers.
