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Chardonnay Reserve
Ried Steinberg
2021
Reserve
A juvenile wine, pure and still restrained, showing hints of green walnuts, vanilla pods and reduced yeasty, flinty and spicey tones; opens very slowly in the glass with a fragrant but more and more radiating bouquet of hay-flowers, freshly cut apple and stone fruit; dry, very fresh and sappy on the palate, medium bodied though tightly woven, reminds again of green apples, citrus & fresh peaches, hints of toasty and yeasty tones accompany the long and animating salty, mineral draft. Decant for several hours of aeration or give it some more years in the cellar.
In the ‘80s, the Bründlmayer Chardonnay won a competition tasting of the "Best Chardonnays in the World" at the Vinitaly wine fair – even though the wine actually had been introduced by a German journalist as a "pirate". This event can be regarded as a prelude to the worldwide interest in Willi Bründlmayer wines. The international style has since found its way to an individual expression with tight structure and charming "Austrian" fruit, with the body, depending on the vintage, sometimes fuller or sometimes leaner.
This wine stems predominantly from the vineyard Steinberg. The vines are trained in the Guyot method planted in a density of 5000-6000 plants per hectare.
At the beginning of September a selection of the grapes is picked for the sparkling wine production. The remaining grapes increase in intensity and the resulting wine is very concentrated.
Site and climate
Ried Steinberg
Maturation
Fermentation takes place in the barrels where the wine is stirred on the lees weekly over 5-6 months. Then it is racked into 2500 liters wooden barrels. This wine always undergoes malolactic fermentation.
Food pairing recommendation
Tends to match with classic Vienna style dishes, white meats and well seasoned hearty fish dishes, many starters like warm goose liver and apple as well as with most Asian dishes such as stir fried Woks, fusion - or Thai-kitchen if not too hot.