RIED BÄRNREISER 1ÖTW
Carnuntum DAC
Zweigelt
Erste Lage 1ÖTW
TASTING NOTE
Deep, juicy, dark berry fruit with a delicate note of nougat and sweet cherry. Full body, powerful and elegant. Fine precious spices underlaid with cloves. Wonderfully concentrated, juicy, elegant and sweet with blackberries. Nougat in the aftertaste, fine acid structure with velvety tannins.
VINIFICATION
Hand picking and pre-selection in the vineyard. Optical sorting of the grapes at the winery. Natural temperature-controlled fermentation in open oak fermenters. 1/3 whole bunches added. Punch downs and pumpovers twice a day by hand. No pumping of the grapes or juice, only gravity. 24 Days on the grape skin, natural malolactic fermentation in 500L French and Austrian oak barrels. 18 months on full lees until bottling. Minimal sulphur addition.
Ripeness of the grapes 22.0 °KMW
Alcohol in % vol 14.0
Acid in g/l 5.6
Residual sugar in g/l 1.0
Ried Bärnreiser 1ÖTW
Food Recommendations
Beef tartare, Lamb
Pasta and Game Dishes
Wine Region
Carnuntum DAC
Vineyard
Single Vineyard
Erste Lage
Ried Bärnreiser 1ÖTW
Höflein
Barren, gravelly and hot location. The natural vegetation consisted only of undergrowth and twigs - hence the name Bärnreiser.
Soil
On the upper slope fine quartz gravel, covered in places with clay silt and sand.
Very deep and calcareous soil that gives complexity to the wine.
Harvest
Hand-picked in September/Oktober