St. Laurent Ried Goldberg 2016

quality wine

Varieties:

St. Laurent

Age of the vines:

Up to 14 years

Terroir:

The grapes for this wine come from the Goldberg vineyard site, a cooler area on the Parndorf Plain facing away from Lake Neusiedl, with red, ferrous, heavy gravel soils on Tertiary sediments.

Harvest:

Following yield reduction to 8 bunches per vine, the grapes were carefully selected and harvested by hand on19. September.

Vinification:

Selection of the grapes, gentle processing, controlled mash fermentation, malolactic fermentation, bâtonnage, matured in barrique barrels for 18 months, bottled on 04. October 2018

Tasting notes:

Powerful, dark ruby red colour; intense nose of sour cherry and blackberry with underlying discreet herbal spiciness; on the palate: fleshy, lively, sappy and precise with lingering berry fruit, good, fine tannin texture and tension, slight notes of liquorice; long-lasting on the finish (25. October 2018)

Specifications:

Alcohol content14.0% alc/volResidual sugar1.0 g/lTotal acidity5.4 g/l