Meet the avant-grüners, a new generation of the classic Austrian party wine. (via punch_drink)
Crystalline, laserlike, pure, precise—these are the words that have come to define Mosel riesling. Can a place so bound by technical winemaking carve out space for natural wine?
Recent releases radically reinterpret the genre, recasting the reliable staple in the image of Austria’s thriving avant-garde. Consider, for example, the work of fifth-generation winemaker Gerald Diem. Based in the Weinviertel region, a historic source of 1-liter bottlings, he’s one of a handful of producers—many of them working in a natural idiom—who have started experimenting with macerated expressions of the grape.
As it turns out, grüner veltliner offers itself as an ideal candidate for the orange-wine treatment, which noticeably plays up the grape’s innate savory, herbal character. Bottled unfined and unfiltered after three weeks on the skins, Diem’s aptly named D’Ora Orange liter—a blend of 90 percent single-vineyard grüner with a smidge of roter traminer—occupies that unexpected sliver of the Venn diagram where “orange” and “chuggable” overlap in beautiful harmony.
Meanwhile, in Vienna, there’s rising star Jutta Ambrositsch. A Burgenland native, she has earned her reputation channeling the unique identities of the historic hillside vineyards that have fueled the city’sfor centuries. Known for her alternative versions of Gemischter Satz , Vienna’s traditional field blend, she produces several site-specific cuvées that have become highly coveted rarities.
Luckily, Ambrositsch and her compatriots’ success proves that seriousness of intent doesn’t mean sacrificing all the reasons why the liter of grüner went viral in the first place. Their aesthetics and styles may differ, but the bottles currently repping this movement never depart from the format’s original promise: delivering a large quantity of delicious, drink-me-now wine for a minimal amount of dollars.
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