This is impressive. It has huge intensity of flavor, a wine that shows wall-to-wall botrytis, along with honey. It isn’t so much obviously sweet as rich and concentrated. It will age for many years.
— R.V.
(12/31/2007)
If you want power and concentration, look no further. But what is also good about this wine is the velvet texture of ripe berry and cherry fruits, with the tannins fitting round like a tight glove. It is obviously going to age well—over 4–5 years and more.
— R.V.
(3/1/2010)
A hugely tannic wine, still of course very young. Its black cherry and dark plum fruits are augmented by wood tannins and concentrated spice. This is Blaufränkisch at its most dense with layered acidity and juicy fruit. Age for 4–5 years.
— R.V.
(12/15/2011)
This is a serious and impressive wine. The tannins are dark and concentrated, with firm black fig, damson and berry fruits, balanced with acidity. It is powerful, with all the best qualities of Blaufränkisch on view. Age for 1–2 years.
— R.V.
(3/1/2010)
Dark berries dominate here, but there is also an intriguing edge of tight spiced minerality. With its strong acidity and important tannins, this is always going to be a wine with an austere side. But the weight is all there, as is the final black berry fruit.
— R.V.
(3/1/2010)
A particularly rich, unctuous wine, its ripe and oily texture a foil for the lime acidity, the botrytis and the tangy honey flavors. It’s an impressive full-in-the-mouth wine, worth aging for several years.
— R.V.
(7/1/2010)
Chardonnay and Pinot Blanc is a blend once found in Burgundy, but rarely today. Here in Austrian Burgenland, it gives a very rounded style of wine, although with a terroir-marked mineral edge. Baked apples and creamed pear are laced with pink grapefruit.
— R.V.
(12/15/2011)
A full, toasty style of Chardonnay that brings out rich fruits, peaches and pears, along with a lime zest that cuts through the rich texture. There is weight here, with a final edge of pepper as well as acidity.
— R.V.
(7/1/2010)