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grown for nearly two decades on the gentle curve of our east-facing slope in the Ried Wieser, which we call Le Grand Bleu, close to the historic Goldberghütte, with views across the lake and over the young sour cherry grove between the cherry village of Mörbisch and the free city of Rust, on deep, permeable, sandy-loamy colluvium soils with clay, silt and mica schist components, after meticulous canopy work radically hand-selected (2,500 kg/ha) and harvested by hand in two passes with the greatest possible care, spontaneously fermented, unfiltered, unfined, aged for 18 months in an amphora of unfired clay, then one year on fine lees in seasoned French barrique

dry (1,3 g/l) | acidity 6,8 g/l | 13,5% Vol. | extract 28,9 g/l | total sulphur 9 mg/l
1000 bottles

clear, a luminous ruby red with purple reflections. Clean as the tidied desk of a childhood classroom, it opens with a youthful fragrance, delicate almonds, sour cherries, spiced like gingerbread and cinnamon, yet already carries itself with a certain maturity, smoky, stony, wet pebbles in rain, not yet showing its full face. Dry, with a marked acidity, medium alcohol and powerful tannin, it soon broadens in the mouth despite its lean but finely muscular body; an echo of sour cherry responds warmer, more clearly red-fruited, with rosy cheeks, following the first impression with a juicy surge of black cherry, wrapped in lovage, tobacco and cedarwood, for complex, it now announces, is indeed what it is, and in the long finish, carried by an elegant arc of tannic tension, it signs off with the cheeky persistence of a youngling, driving home its plummy punchline. (MVF autumn 2025)

This is living wine. High ageing potential.
€ 36,-