Gassner - 'Amber - 28 Months' - Grüner Veltliner - Rusterberg, Burgenland, AT - 2019

Sparkling amber, multi-layered fragrance with spicy notes, acacia honey and resin, beeswax, fine tobacco, delicate tannin, elegant bitter tones
Like pure medicine
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12.5 Vol.% Alc.; 1.5 g/l residual sugar; 4.3 g/l acidity; dry
Contains sulphites
0.75 l bottle
Vintage: 2018
Filtrated
AT-BIO-402 Natural Wine

Mash fermented and matured in old wooden barrels for 28 months

Gassner is a biodynamic Demeter certified winery in the town of Rust in a 16th century building on the shore of Lake Neusiedl in Burgenland, Austria. Until 2015, Robert and Marianne Gassner only made wine for themselves and family from their 3hectare parcel of old vines. Since the winery inception everything has been done by hand utilizing biodynamic preparations and an emphasis not only on health but climate awareness.

Their fascinating Amber line is an array of Gruner Veltliners that spend varying amounts of time on the lees in clay amphora or large format used Austrian oak barrels. Ferments are always native and there is minimal intervention. Miniscule amounts were made of this mash fermented GV that spent 28 months in old wooden barrels.

Exposing what has always been here – making the invisible visible – that is what drives Marianne and Robert Gassner.
Wines that are profoundly influenced by the natural environment grow and emerge through this philosophy, embodying the past as well as the future.
They are created with intensive manual labour – biodynamically, in the cycle of nature.
Just like the soil from which they grew.
Nothing more and nothing less.
Pure.