Cellar

Harvest

handpicked | 15 kg cask

Fermentation

spontaneous

Malolactic Fermentation

Maturing

30 % | small wooden barrel | 300 L | used barrel | 5 month(s)

70 % | steel tank | 5 month(s)

Bottling

natural cork

Data

Wine Type

still wine | white | dry

Allergens

sulfites

Wine Description

Brandstatt is my recultivation project in the Spitzer Graben, the coolest area of the Wachau and about 450 meters above sea level. The original mica schist vineyard, which had been long neglected, was replanted with Riesling following the restoration of the vineyard's terrace walls. My aspiration is to press the grapes from this age-old terraced vineyard into an uncompromising wine – a wine that expresses not as much the grape variety, but more the terroir and an old winemaking tradition. With the maceration as well as the maturation in local acacia barrels, perhaps this will be a wine just like those that were here long ago.