RIED SCHÜTTENBERG
CHARDONNAY
Carnuntum DAC
100% Chardonnay
2021
TASTING NOTE
Fine vanilla with delicate herbal spices and biscuit. Yellow peach notes, a hint of nougat. Juicy, elegant and very creamy texture. Sweet honeydew melon emphasizes the fine acid structure. Orange zest in the finish. Perfect accompaniment to food and great aging potential.
VINIFICATION
Hand-picked, first selcetion of grapes in the vineyard. Removal of stems, 36-hour maceration on the grape skins, minimally sulfurized, natural fermentation in 600L french oak barrels. 12 months on full lees.
Ripeness of the grapes 21.0°KMW
Alcohol in % vol 14.0
Acid in g/l 4.8
Residual sugar in g/l 2.5
Ried Schüttenberg Chardonnay 2021
Food Recommendations
Pasta
Seafood, Fish
Veal, Poultry
Wine region
Carnuntum DAC
Vineyard
Single vineyard
Ried Schuettenberg
Goettlesbrunn
At 280 meters, the Schüttenberg ist the uppermost elevation in our vineyard sites. Characterised by the gravel from the original river bed of the primeval Danube river.
Soil
A gravel layer some 2 million years old and 50cm thick lies atop of sandy-loamy sediments with deep calcareous soils.
Harvest
Hand-picked 24. September 2021