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Region: Austria
Grapes: Zweigelt
Alcohol: 12.5%
Notes on the Wine
An easy drinker, this red is an enjoyable light wine with notes of cherry chocolate, cola, and vanilla with smoke and minerals on the finish.
Notes on the Producer
Auersthal is just barely beyond Vienna’s northern suburbs, in a dead-still little wine village. It’s rather odd to drive there and see lots of wee little oil derricks, but such little oil as Austria produces comes from these parts, deep below the löss. I had either forgotten or had never known the estate was organic; they belong to a group called Bio-Ernte which has standards above the EU guidelines. In speech, by the way, “bio” is pronounced to rhyme with “B.O.” which can lead to some drollery as you hear references to “B.O. wine” unless, unlike me, you have left behind your adolescence.
