![]() ![]() This is delightfully enjoyable now, but can stand up to aging enjoy best 2020–2030. Leather, black cherry and dark chocolate highlight a midpalate of finely polished, tamed tannin and integrated oak. This understated, elegant study in the variety opens in beguiling aromas of floral rose before opening into a finely made, structured and gracefully constructed wine that’s fully in balance. Matt KettmannĬorison 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon (St. ![]() ![]() The palate is soft and extremely expressive, with blueberry, black pepper, firm midpalate tannins and a finish that’s redolent of cappuccino candies. Dark and thick in the glass, aromas of black currant and blueberry meet with roasted coffee, chocolate syrup and baked plum on the wondrous nose. Vintner Austin Hope, whose family is intertwined in the rise of Paso Robles, spent years working to release a wine of this caliber. Roger VossĪustin Hope 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon (Paso Robles) $50, 97 points. Its power comes from the structure as much as the fruit, promising a wine with an immensely long life ahead of it. This wine conveys density but its richness is sublimated by the complex structure and beautiful ripe fruit. Perfect with roasted vegetables, Alpine cheese such as Comte or Gruyere or even risotto bianco.Château Ducru Beaucaillou 2016 Saint-Julien $210, 98 points. Fabulous razor like acidity, gentle tannic grip from the skins and generous fruit with every mouthful. Gentle fining and cold stabilisation.Ī delightful blend of Riesling, Gruner Veltliner, Gewurztraminer and Muscat which offers up notes of ginger, white pepper and flowers, with an underlying hint of green tea and mandarin. There is no malolactic fermentation but the wine benefits from 8 weeks of lees contact. The grapes are pressed and left in contact with the skins to extract the orange colour and additional flavour compound, then the must is fermented in stainless steel tank with selected yeasts for 15 to 25 days at controlled temperatures which get warmer the nearer they get to the end of fermentation. The winery is energy neutral, producing energy from their Biogas plant and a Photovoltaic system which produces more energy than is required. Vineyards are sited at approximately 230 to 300m ASL and are mostly orientated South, South East and South West, on terraces with an incline of between 10 and 40 degrees.Ĥ5% Riesling 35% Gruner Veltliner 20% Others including Gewurztraminer & Muscat The grapes are harvested carefully, early in the morning by hand and machine from 15 year + old trellis grown vines in Weinviertel within the Niederosterreich region which are sited on loess, clay, granite mix soils and where the climate is cool continental. They produce their own seeds to sew cover crops in the vineyards and use straw from the fields in the young vineyards to protect the vines from dry stress. Sustainably certified by agroVet, they also produce their own fertiliser. ![]() Grapes are harvested in the early morning to harness acidity and pure fruit expression and taken to their energy neutral winery for vinification. The south-east and south-west exposure of the slopes provides conditions for perfect ripening. All work in the vineyard is carried out sustainably, with the use of their own fertilisers made from grape skins, manure and straw from their fields, to improve the soil structure and vitality of their vines. We’ve worked with a 16th generation producer in Niederosterreich to put together this characterful range. Radio silence wine skin#It all started with Gruner, then Zweigelt and now Funkstille is a quartet including Riesling and a Skin Contact wine … capturing Austria’s most famous varieties and archetypal styles under some eye-popping packaging. Now more than ever we need a little ‘Funkstille’ or radio silence in our lives, so it was only natural that as interest and desire for Austrian wines grew, so would our range. ![]()
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