Gut Oggau - Atanasius 2022

Gut Oggau - Atanasius 2022

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Description

Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch


Vineyard: 36 year old vines on gravel and limestone

Vinification: Hand picked and destemmed. Fermented in used barrels (500l and 1200l) with 3 weeks on skins. Elevage takes place in the same barrels for 12 months with no battonage.


Personality: Wiltrude and Joschuari’s son. Like his sister Theodora,
he has a very affectionate and easy-going nature that is typical of the inhabitants of the Burgenland. He is an attractive young man, but in no way superficial.

 

--------THE PRODUCER--------

Gut Oggau

Gut Oggau is a project in the small town of Oggau in Burgenland, Austria, started by Eduard and Stephanie Tscheppe in 2007. Before starting the winery, Eduard made conventional wine with his father in Styria, and Stephanie’s family owned and operated the Michelin starred restaurant Taubenkobel. They painstakingly restored the 17th century winery that had been abandoned for 20 years, including its 200-year-old screw press. The vines’ 20-year period of neglect was fortunate, as this allowed for all pesticide and chemical treatments to be washed away. This let them begin working immediately on vines biodynamically, where they are now fully Demeter certified.

When they began to work with the wines in the cellar, they noticed that each wine seemed so alive with its own personality, that they decided to craft labels centered around the personality inside each bottle. Thus they created a family of wines: each wine is given a name of one family member and the artist Jung von Matt draws a face for each label. The children, Atanasius, Theodora, and Winifred, are wines that are more forthright, light, bold and energetic. The parents, Joschuari, Emmeram, Timotheus, and Josephine, come from vineyards with a little more direct sun exposure and therefore more ripeness producing wines with more body and power. And finally the grandparents, Mechtild and Bertholdi, are from two single vineyards of older vines that produce the most traditional wines from their lineup. Most of the vineyards are field blended, and therefore there is little mention of grape varieties here, but they do work with 6 main grape varieties– Blaufrankish, Zweigelt Grüner Veltliner, Welschriesling, Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc), and Gewürztraminer.

 

--------THE GRAPE--------

Garganega

Gargenega is the white grape varietal behind the zippy and citrusy wines of Soave in the Veneto of northern Italy. It has long been one of the most planted white grapes in Italy due to its bold lemon and lime flavour profile.

 

--------THE REGION--------

Veneto

Veneto is a region in the northeast of Italy. It is the region behind the famous red wines of Valpolicella. The wines of Valpolicella are made in a range of styles from dry and light (Valpolicella Superiore) to medium bodied and complex (Valpolicella Ripasso) to the fullest bodied red (Amarone della Valpolicella) and a sweet red made in a passito style (Recioto della Valpolicella). It is also the home to the sparkling wines of Prosecco.