6 bottles 0.75l in a wooden box
WINE VIB Very Important Bottle
VARIETY 50% Merlot | 50% Cabernet Sauvignon
VINTAGE 2020
TASTING NOTE
Deep, juicy dark fruit underlaid with delicate notes of nougat and dark chocolate, a hint of tobacco, vanilla, orange zest and raspberries.
Wonderfully concentrated with a fine acid structure.
Extremely complex, powerful and elegant. Ripe tannins on the palate and an enormous length on the finish. Close-meshed with an extract-sweet structure.
Very good freshness - will only benefit from aging in the bottle. A wine for decades to come.
VINIFICATION
Handpicking and pre-selection in the vineyard. Optical sorting of the grapes at the winery. Spontaneous fermentation in 900l French oak fermenters. Gentle flooding of the mash cake several times a day by rotating the barrels.
After 24 days of fermentation on the skins, spontaneous malolactic fermentation in new oak barrels. Then 30 months of storage and aging in barriques.
Maturation 225l French Barriques
Ripeness of the Grapes 22.5°KMW
Bottling September 2023
Alcohol in % vol 14.5
Acid in g/l 6.4
Residual Sugar in g/l 1.0
V.I.B. Very Important Bottle 2020 | 6 x 0.75L
Vineyard
Ried Haidacker, 230 m above sea level, southern slope.
33-36 Year-old vines
Soil
Gentle foothills of the Danube gravel chain of hills. Sandy and partly silty-clayey layer with gravelly sediments.
Very calcareous and deep soils.
Harvest
Hand-picked, September 26, 2020 + October 6, 2020
Reviews
V.I.B. 2015 | Falstaff 95 points
V.I.B. 2017 | Falstaff 95 points
V.I.B. 2018 | Falstaff 97 points