Frischengruber Gruner Vetliner Steigerfederspiel 2021Region: Austria Appellation: Wachau Color Style: White, Light Bodied Grapes: Gruner Vetliner This foot slope vineyard faces the Danube to the north and is a classical river bed soil of gravel with deposits of paragneiss and a rich topsoil of humus and loess. A humus rich topsoil further improves both water absorption and storage capacity, protecting the vines from hydric stress while steadily supplying nutrients. This brings out a fruitiness in grner

Appellation: Côtes du Roussillon

Four week long fermentation with native yeast - no malolactic fermentation

with natural vinification in the cellar: indigenous yeasts

Lilian is the latest vigneron of an estate created in 1895

ripeness but still with balance

Great wines of origin at a moderate price

0L format – it is as rare and as great as it gets

Romain Chapuis worked as cellar master at Phillipe Pacalet and the wines exhibit a similar purity

We give them maceration and produce from young oak barrels

The wines are racked once in July to harmonize the blends

Vines planted in the 1950s in soil that is more clay-limestone over tuffeau chalk

Special Gobelet pruning called cabane to elevate grapes