Grüner Veltliner Schlossberg 1.ÖTW 2020 1500ml Magnum

Wine Description for Grüner Veltliner Schlossberg 1.ÖTW 2020 1500ml Magnum by Fritsch

Colour & Appearance

Sparkling, intense golden yellow – a wine that already signals substance and maturity in the glass. The magnum bottle does its part to underscore this impression.

Nose

The nose is complex and multifaceted: dried apricot, mango and orange unfold a powerful, juicy fruit, accompanied by an intoxicating floral bouquet. Beneath this shimmer exotic spices – cinnamon, cardamom – and an earthy, stony depth that points to the mighty loess layer of the Schlossberg. A wine that already tells stories as you smell it.

Palate

Taut, demanding, precise. The seemingly sweet fruit is held in check by a lively, invigorating acidity, whilst saline notes lend the wine an unmistakable mineral tension. A spicy tannin structure – remarkable for a white wine – provides texture and grip. This Schlossberg is not a wine for impatient drinkers: decanting is essential.

Finish

Long, spicy and saline-mineral. The wine bids farewell with emphasis and leaves you craving another sip – or better yet: five more years of cellar ageing.

Terroir & Origin

The Schlossberg on the Wagram is a First Growth (1.ÖTW) of extraordinary geological richness: south-facing vineyards on a plateau behind the Wagram escarpment, with a mighty loess layer over Danube glacial terrace gravels and Miocene marine sediments. This stratification gives the wine its characteristic depth and enormous ageing potential.

Grape Variety & Vinification

Pure Grüner Veltliner, hand-harvested and fermented spontaneously over two months in a used 2,000-litre wooden barrel. No intervention, no calculation – only patience. The result is a wine of remarkable authenticity that mirrors the terroir unfiltered. 12.5% alcohol, dry.

Food Pairing Suggestions

The combination of spice, acidity and minerality makes this wine a versatile companion: beetroot on rocket with candied walnuts and orange segments plays wonderfully with the fruit depth. Pork fillet in cider with Calvados apples and mashed potato harmonises with the spicy structure. Or daringly: poultry roulade with corn filling, couscous and coriander mayonnaise – the wine’s exotic spice notes find their echo here.

Special Features

The magnum bottle (1,500 ml) is no mere showpiece here, but rather a statement of intent: larger bottles age more slowly and evenly – for a wine with this ageing potential the ideal choice. Open it now and you’ll get a grand, still youthfully closed Grüner Veltliner. Wait, and you’ll be rewarded.