Moric | Burgenland | Lutzmannsburg, Alte Reben | 2018 | 750ml

Beschreibung

Product description for Moric Lutzmannsburg, Alte Reben 2018

Information about the wine

The Lutzmannsburg Alte Reben is a Blaufränkisch selection from the oldest and best vineyards. The Lutzmannsburg plateau was formed on a prehistoric volcano, on which different layers were deposited over time. Today, sediments from the Pannonian Sea can be found in the form of limestone, loam, sand, and clay, as well as deposits of volcanic origin. The 2018 Lutzmannsburg Alte Reben was selected from six plots. The vines are between 85 and 110 years old. Around 20% of the harvest was fermented as whole bunches with stalks. After the spontaneous initiation, fermentation lasted 23 to 28 days in open wooden vats. After very careful pressing into 500- and 600-liter barrels, the wine rested on its full lees for eleven months, where spontaneous malolactic fermentation took place. The first racking took place after approximately one year. The Blaufränkisch then matured for a further twelve months in 500-liter barrels. Bottling took place at the end of September 2019. There was no fining, no filtration, and only minimal addition of sulfites.

Colour

Deep red between ruby and garnet with violet reflections

Nose

Herbs, elderberries, black cherries, and mulberries combined with a touch of tar, peat, and wood are the markers by which one can currently assess the potential of this great Burgenland wine. The wine’s dark, multifaceted aromas are seductive from the outset. After hours with plenty of air, it fans out significantly, revealing ever more berry, stone, and violet aromas.

Palate

The 2018 Lutzmannsburg Alte Reben is a wine that, after four years, already shows its full potential, but that’s exactly what it is. It’s one that should ideally age for a decade, even though it’s already so seductive. It seems as dense and generous as it is balanced and precise. The Blaufränkisch oscillates between red and dark berries, wild herbs, stone, and earthy notes, offering plenty of tannin that, however well-measured, appears ripe, and elegant. The wine coats the palate with velvet and silk and dances on the tongue despite its depth and fullness. It’s already great now, but it will become even more complex and self-contained over time. A wine for the next 20 years and more.

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Wine Advocate

Score: 94

The 2018 Lutzmannsburg Alte Reben opens with a pure yet intense, coolish, spicy, very elegant and defined nose of crushed stones (crystalline rather than lime), spices, herbs and pepper as well as dark forest fruits, blackcurrant, black tea and pimento. Soft and charming yet silky, finessed and coolish on the palate, this is a full-bodied, rich yet stunningly refined and vivacious Blaufränkisch from a very warm year. The tannins are fine grained and intermingled with saline acidity and the tart, dark fruit, which is not sweet or charmingly round at all but ripe and very elegant or very Blaufränkisch. The finish is clear and cleansing if also a bit astringent and animal at this stage but promising, I prefer the 2019 for the moment, though, which is more round, sweet and juicy. 13.5% stated alcohol. Natural cork. Tasted in April 2023.
Stephan Reinhardt

Producer website: http://www.moric.at/