Grüner Veltliner Dechant Alte Reben Kamptal DAC 2022

The DECHANT vineyard faces southeast and is well protected from north winds, yet well aerated. The soil is fine calcareous loess, which can reach heights of up to 60 meters on slopes, interspersed with gravelly inclusions. All this makes the Dechant a very good site for powerful, complex Veltliners.

The grape harvest started a little earlier than in the previous year, the main harvest took place between mid-September and the first week of October, the grapes were very ripe and healthy. Due to the heat, the berries were smaller, resulting in lower juice yields, but also more concentrated, denser and, in the case of the red wines, darker wines.

Firm and quite deep, clearly herbaceous-vegetable, delicately smoky and hinted at yeasty fragrance with quite fine aromas of ripe yellow fruits, a hint of root vegetables and minerality. Ripe, juicy fruit with sweet melting, but also rather tart vegetal flavours and mineral spiciness.

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