LARGE BOTTLE 1.5 L IN THE WOODEN BOX
WINE VIB Very Important Bottle
VARIETY 50% Merlot | 50% Cabernet Sauvignon
VINTAGE 2020
TASTING NOTE
Deep, juicy dark fruit underpinned with delicate nougat notes and dark chocolate, a hint of tobacco and vanilla. Dark forest berries, ripe cherries, nuances of plums.
Wonderfully concentrated with a fine acid structure.
Extremely multi-layered, powerful and complex. Ripe tannins on the palate and an enormous length in the finish. Tightly woven with an extract-sweet structure. Ripe tannins, sweet nougat in the finish - will only benefit from bottle aging. A wine for the next decades.
VINIFICATION
Hand-picking and pre-selection in the vineyard. Optical sorting of the grapes at the winery.
Movement of the berries only by gravity. Spontaneous fermentation in 900l wooden fermenters made of French and Austrian oak. Gently flooding the mash cake several times a day by turning the barrels.
After 28 days of fermentation on the mash, 36 months of storage and maturation in new French barriques.
Maturation 225l French barrique
ripeness of the grapes 22.5 °KMW
Filled September 2023
Alcohol in %vol 14.4
Acid in g/l 5.2
Sugar in g/l 1.0
V.I.B. Very Important Bottle 2020 | MAGNUM 1.5L
Harvest
hand-picked, September 26, 2020 + October 6, 2020
Soil
Gentle foothills of the Danube gravel chain of hills. Sandy and partly silty-clayey layer with gravelly sediments.
Very calcareous and deep soils.
Vineyard
Ried Haidacker
Goettlesbrunn
230 m above sea level, southern slope
33-36 old vines
Reviews
V.I.B. 2015 | Falstaff 95 points
V.I.B. 2017 | Falstaff 95 points
V.I.B. 2018 | Falstaff 97 points