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Tasting note
- Character
- A Zweigelt of unusual coolness and tautness – far removed from any jamminess that so often drives this variety towards cloying banality. With just 12.0% ABV and a dry vinification, it presents itself as slender, almost nervous, with dark berry fruit threaded through with a delicate spiciness. This is not a wine for instant gratification, but one that demands attention and rewards it in return.
- Terroir & Origin
- From Gols on Lake Neusiedl, where Gernot and Heike Heinrich have assembled their estate parcel by parcel since 1990 – often acquiring the stony, challenging vineyard sites that others had abandoned. Today they farm one hundred hectares, entirely biodynamic and Demeter-certified since 2017, as a founding member of respekt-BIODYN. Over recent decades, Burgenland has proven it can offer far more than rustic everyday wine – and the Heinrichs were among the first to step onto the international stage.
- Variety & Vinification
- Zweigelt, Austria’s most widely planted red grape variety, is treated here not as a soft everyday wine, but as a serious ambassador of its origin. In the cellar, the Heinrichs rely on gravity rather than pumps, opt for spontaneous fermentation, and allow the wine to mature in large wooden casks crafted by local cooper Klaus Pauscha – used wood that allows the wine to breathe rather than perfuming it. No fining, no filtration: a pure wine that transparently conveys its origin into the glass.
- Food Pairings
- Its taut structure and cool fruit make it an ideal partner for pan-roasted duck breast with a dark jus, for rack of lamb with Provençal herbs, or for a hearty mushroom strudel. It also reveals a quiet persuasiveness alongside a well-aged hard mountain cheese. A wine that does not shout, but speaks very clearly in a gentle voice.
