Anton Bauer, Pinot Noir, Wagram, Austria 2019

About the Wine:

Classic color, medium density, purple and carmine, boiled edge; youthful fruit on the nose, with vegetal and herbal supplement, still youthful, a little bit restrained; Sweet roasted on the palate, elegant berry aromas and chocolates, fine, cooked fruit fullness, delicate roasted notes as a complement, juvenile toasting with some coffee notes, extra sweet and elegant finish.

Controlled fermentation in steel tank - storage and removal - steel, large oak barrel and used barrique - 16 months
Yield 35 hl / ha
Ground loess

Anton Bauer relies exclusively on traditional manual harvesting at his winery - and he has good reasons for doing this.

"Ultimately, it's all about the quality - and we continually optimize all the factors that contribute to it. From my point of view, I can only achieve the optimum grape quality that I have in mind with hand-picking. There are several reasons for this.  

 Firstly, we can pre-sort the grapes right in the vineyard, which is important because the ripening is never completely uniform, so we can already weed out grapes that are not yet fully ripe. In difficult years we can make several harvesting passes and only pick the grapes that are already perfect.  

About the Winery:

Anton Bauer, born in 1971, manages the now 29 hectare vineyard in its fourth generation. After completing his degree in Krems and an internship in Burgundy, he spent more than four years as an oenologist in a renowned Lower Austrian wine-growing business.

In 1992, he took over the parental winery with then 3.2 ha, and pursued since then uncompromisingly his idea of quality. It is important to him to work out the region's typicality, the terroir character of the wines, which make them unmistakable and inexchangeable.

Success proves him right, because the demand for his wines is unbroken. Its typically Austrian wines - with a certain international touch - are also proven in the most competitive wine markets in the world: 70% of the annual production is exported, the most important customers are based in the US, UK, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.