Grassl

Carnuntum | Göttlesbrunn

Young, ambitious, passionate winemakers like Philipp Grassl are authoring the transformation of Carnuntum from unfashionable backwater to a place capable of producing exciting site-specific, mineral wines. Austria’s only red-wine dominant region, Carnuntum’s mix of mix of alluvial soils, loess, limestone, and gravel give terroir-obsessed winemakers like Grassl much to work with, as the region benefits from the tempering by the Danube River of the Pannonian climate’s hot summers and cold winters. Working with Zweigelt and St. Laurent, Grassl’s approach in the cellar is to do very little, letting vineyard and vintage speak for themselves.

Grassl 2022 Zweigelt

Zweigelt is pure drinking pleasure. This is why this incredibly versatile, native variety dominates Grassl's list of varieties at 50%. As a classic Zweigelt, it comes from various southeast-facing locations in the Carnuntum wine-growing region, where the 7 to 45-year-old vines find excellent conditions to fully ripen on loamy to gravelly soils. This interesting mix of young and old vines guarantees the complexity, fruit and spice typical of Zweigelt, which makes this classic so stimulating and easily entices you to have another glass.

  • 2022
  • Zweigelt
  • Austria
  • Carnuntum
  • Organic in Transition LACON
  • Schuttenberg
  • Southeast
  • danube gravel, löss, loam
  • 12 months 50% big wooden casks, 50% 500 litre barrels, no racking, no finings
  • hand-picked, destemmed without crushing the skins, natural yeast, 28 °C, soft remontage and maceration for 12-16 days
  • 1
  • 750 ml

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