Sometimes sprouting too early and, fearfully, a late frost, in another wine year the flowering drags on until the proverbial St. Never Little Day. Maybe paired with a weak flower approach. If you are unlucky and unlucky, you as a winegrower will be hit by a hailstorm and long periods of rain during the harvest time are almost the maximum penalty. The together is only a very small excerpt of what can be expected in the life of a winegrower in one year, seen negatively.
If you look at it positively – and the award-winning Donnerskirchner winemaker Leo Sommer belongs to the “think pink types” without being color blind, then you are amazed every year at the many facets of life in the vineyard, which enrich the work enormously. This also includes the vineyards in the right locations.
In terms of terroir, Donnerskirchen am Leithaberg, on the west side of Lake Neusiedl, offers a colorful mix of opportunities to make great wines. On the one hand the lake as a temperature regulator, on the other hand the continental-Pannonian climate and barren slate soils, some of which are covered with a layer of lime. A soil structure that also benefits the Grüner Veltliner in Burgenland.
The aroma varieties Sauvignon Blanc and Muskateller also feel good, hot days and cool nights ensure optimal aroma storage. The leading local variety Blaufränkisch ripens here to unimagined heights and the young, successful winemaker knows how to bring the special taste profile of the area to the palate of connoisseurs.
The Leithaberg DAC Grüner Veltliner from Riede Himmelreich is particularly popular: the intense chalky-salty flavor profile is immediately recognizable on the palate. The leading local variety is very powerful and exciting! Simply a top-class terroir wine. If you want to experience a small taste explosion, you can reach for Sauvignon Blanc Wolfsbach. Elderberry, gooseberry with noticeable cassis notes call for appropriate accompaniment. How about a zander from Lake Neusiedl, which has a Hungarian touch and can be prepared very spicy. To come back to the flagship Blaufränkisch DAC, especially the Riede Halser: the Blaufränkisch from Leo Sommer’s cellar is certainly not broad, full-bodied, loaded with jam. The opposite: puristic, complex and filigree – but all the more noble and impressive and anything but a series production! This top wine impressively scratches the 100 point mark!
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