Leithaberg Blaufränkisch 2022

The Leithaberg is the last remnant of the Alps reaching toward the Pannonian Plain. Its shell limestone soil is millions of years old and offers optimal conditions to grow complex wines. This unique calcareous soil and the cool winds from the adjacent Leithaberg Forest lends the wines an inimitable mineral, highly structured character.

I love the way that a good Blaufränkisch tastes like an angst-ridden love letter written in blue ink so dark it could be black, smudged with the spill of a bleeding heart and salty tears. Like this wine. You could add an old-fashioned wooden classroom desk in there. The fruit, momentarily petulant with sooty, foot-dragging tannins, lifts itself as it has time in the glass, becoming sweeter, fresher and more gentle, second by second. Drinkability right up the charts.

Fish and light meat with spicy vegetables, strong hard cheese