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Region
Austria
Appellation
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Grapes
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Rotburger is a synonym for Zweigelt
Soil
schist
Facts
ABV
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Residual Sugar
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Sulfite Level
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Total Acidity
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Production (Bottles)
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The vineyard
Kreuzegg
Exposure
South to Southwest
Age of the wines
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Altitude
500m
Size
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The cellar
Handpicked grapes are destemmed and fermented in open vats. The maceration lasts until the fermentation is complete.
Vessel
Neutral oak
Elevage
Fermented juice is transferred manually using buckets to used Burgundy oak barrels and aged for about a year. Then it is manually bottled in small batches without filtration, fining or addition of sulfur.
Type of closure
natural cork
This animating red wine provides an intense, cherry-aromatic wine experience, full of tension with clinking minerality, pleasant spices and silky tannins. The soil in our vineyard Kreuzegg consists of weathered siliceous primary rock (schist) with covering of humus. At an altitude of 500 m with a south to south-southwest exposure, it has an open view of the Koralp mountains.
This animating red wine provides an intense, cherry-aromatic wine experience, full of tension with clinking minerality, pleasant spices and silky tannins. The soil in our vineyard Kreuzegg consists of weathered siliceous primary rock (schist) with covering of humus. At an altitude of 500 m with a south to south-southwest exposure, it has an open view of the Koralp mountains.
Weingut Karl Schnabel-Ermihof is a certified-biodynamic farm located in South Styria or Südsteiermark region of Austria , close to the Slovenian border . one of the trailblazers of the natural wine movement in Austria . Karl and Eva Schnabel run the estate since 2000 , when they came back to the farm to reactivate the family winery , which paused due to the fact that Karl's parents died when he was only 17 . Today , aided by their 3 sons , the Schnabels farm 5 hectares of vineyards , focusing on red grape varieties , which is an anomaly in the region . Karl has studied agricultural economics while , Eva has studied business administration . After working in their fields for several years they decided to ...