The Aromatic Varieties

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…in any event, the most highly rated Sauvignon was grown on the Leitha Range in Burgenland: the Methusalemreben (ancient vines) in the vineyard Ried Steinmühle from the Kollwentz Estate.

Andi Kollwentz characterises Sauvignon Blanc as ‘the most difficult variety in the vineyard, because it places such great demands in terms of location’. Evidently, it finds the best possible conditions in the quartz-gravel and flint (silex) soils of the Steinmühle: while this wine from the 2011 vintage – even with all of its complexity – presents itself as accessible and open, it seems a few months after the harvest to be a little early still for the ‘normal’ Steinmühle 2012…