Blaufrankisch Eisenberg 'Eisenberg'

Wachter-Wiesler
Austria
Südburgenland
2019

Starting with the 2017 vintage, Wachter-Wiesler began bottling two village-level wines, offering a middle ground between the Bela-Joska which gives a good idea of Eisenberg region and the show-stopping single-vineyard wines. The Eisenberg comes from three sites on the famous Eisenberg hill: Saibritz, Humengraben, and Fasching. To be clear, Eisenberg is a vineyard, the famous hill with very little topsoil, where vines grow right into the green schist soil. Eisenberg is a town, and the Eisenberg DAC is named after both because this is the very best place for Blaufrankisch in all of Sudburgenland. The vines here are 40 - 50 years old and give a wine that has a stoney structure, and restrained, yet pretty fruit. 

95 points
"Christoph Wachter blends this wine from three vineyards—Saybritz, Humengraben and Fasching—all planted in the green schist of the Eisenberg. That primary rock gives the wine a rustic power, Südburgenland-unforgiving, concentrated in its flavors of wild blueberries, tar and spruce sap. That high-elevation, evergreen freshness cools and brightens the fruit, its tannic tension needing days to fan out and show gentler, buffed edges, even as those dynamic tannins keep rolling along."
Wine & Spirits Magazine
February 2023
93 points
"A pure, elegant style, with vibrant violet, plum and cassis notes laced with loamy earht and bay leaf hints, which stretch from start to finish. There is a lovely mix of well-integrated tannins and ripe acidity which keep this balanced and fresh and give it persistence. There is an inviting spice note that echoes on the finish."
Aleks Zecevic,
Wine Enthusiast

SKU/Code: 
DB2045-19
Product Line: 
National Portfolio
Wine
Red
Varietal: 
Blaufränkisch
Farming Type: 
Organic
Tech Sheet: 
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