Alexander Zahel

2023 Bio Blaufränkisch Alte Reben

Niederösterreich
100% Blaufränkisch
Red wine

This organic Blaufränkisch comes from sandstone and granite soils with a limestone top soil. This terroir lends the wine a unique complex minimality that compliments the long lees aging and 53 year old vines.

Tasting notes: elegant red berry and cherry fruit with lots of spicy notes, smooth, velvety tannins with well integrated fine acidity and complex almost concentrated fruit flavors coming from the old vines. flinty taste with a long but fresh, mineral finish;

Winemaking: two weeks spontaneous fermentation in 100% Stockinger fermenters and 18 months storage in 100% 1200l Stockinger barrels on the fine lees, minimal sulfuring and no filtration or fining before bottling;