Wine information
Physiologically highly ripe grapes were harvested from our own selection of old Grüner Veltliner vines in the Steinthal vineyard. Intracellular maceration took place over six days in Kvevri, after which the wine was matured for 22 months on the lees without intervention in 700-litre acacia barrels. Bottling took place without fining with 20 mg/L sulphites in February 2023. The pH value is 3.15, the residual sugar is 1 gram.
Color
light golden yellow
Nose
On the nose, you quickly realise that you are dealing with a wine that has hardly been sulphurised and has spent a long time on the lees. The NUMEN grüner veltliner smells of crunchy apples, warm yeast dough, nuts and almond slivers with a hint of lanolin, blond tobacco and stone.
Palate
On the palate, this is a complex, firm and powerful wine that is clearly yeasty and has a correspondingly creamy texture. One might now fear that this would be accompanied by a certain heaviness and solidity. But far from it. The wine has an impressive liveliness and freshness, although the acidity is more ripe and fine than powerful. It is the minerality, the tart-spicy flavour and the slight saltiness that lend the Grüner Veltliner tension and liveliness. The wine, which has a rather dark spiciness, remains present on the palate for a long time and lingers there in its complexity.
Food recommendations by Christoph Raffelt
- Dim sum with duck and Brussels sprouts with nut butter
- Tonkatsu with white cabbage salad
- Green asparagus quiche
| Allergens | Contains sulfur |
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| Winemaker | Johannes Zillinger |
| Country | Austria |
| Region | Weinviertel |
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| Residual sweetness | ■□□□□ |
| Drinking temperature | 11° |
| Manufacturer | Organic winery Johannes Zillinger, Landstrasse 70, A-2245 Velm-Götzendorf, Austria. Organic certificate: AT-BIO-401 |
