Zweigelt 100 Days – Keringer Winery – 2022

75 cl

Falstaff: 92 points

Alcohol content: 15% vol.

Grape varieties: Zweigelt

Vinification:

100 Days. 100 Tage! – For this range, the finest single-varietal red wines are left to macerate in the fermentation tank for at least 100 days, together with their seeds and skins. They are then allowed to mature in barriques until they reach perfection.

Tasting note:

Deep carmine-garnet, with violet highlights and a broader ochre-red tinge. Tobacco notes, delicate hints of precious wood, ripe heart cherries, a hint of nougat. Juicy, ripe wild berry jam, a subtle hint of vanilla, mineral notes, sweet cherries on the finish; already very drinkable.

Keringer Winery:

Robert and Marietta Keringer took over their parents« business in Mönchhof in 2004 and have expanded it from five hectares to a vineyard covering around one hundred hectares. A good eighty per cent of their production consists of red wines, primarily Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch from the Heideboden vineyards on Lake Neusiedl. The »100 Days’ range is characterised by a maceration period of at least one hundred days, whilst the ‘Massiv’ label stands for dense, powerful wines with great depth. The estate has been certified under the ‘Nachhaltig Austria’ scheme since 2019. Internationally, Keringer collects medals like hardly any other Austrian winery.