GUT OGGAU - Gut Oggau Rouge
Gut Oggau is located in Oggau am Neusiedler See in Burgenland, Austria. It was established 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 a Michelin starred restaurant. They 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. 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, Welchriesling, Weissburgunder and Gewurtzraminer.
Gut Oggau Rot (Red) is a blend of three wines: Atanasius (Zweigelt and Blaufrankisch), Joschuari (Blaufrankisch) and Bertholdi (Blaufrankisch), as seen on the label. The grapes are hand harvested and destemmed. Fermentation takes place in used 500 and 1200-litre barrels, and the juice spends about 3 weeks in contact with the skins. The wine goes through ageing in the same barrels for about 12 months, with no punching down. The wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and with no addition of sulfur.
Grape varieties: Zweigelt, Blaufrankisch
Purchase limited to 3 bottles
