Gernot Heinrich Pinot Blanc vom Salzberg 2018
The Gernot Heinrich Pinot Blanc Salzberg 2018 is a mineral white wine with a very unique character, proudly showcasing its origin from the Gols Salzberg. Medium yellow with green reflections, herbaceous notes on the nose: herbs and meadow blossoms with pronounced fruit of pear and honey notes from linden. On the palate, it is juicy, elegant with a substantial texture and mineral salinity.
Heike Heinrich describes her wine as follows: "With a creamy texture and a body that replaces heaviness with density, it brims with tension, vitality, and temperament. With immense fruit melt and a widely spread acidic sail, the Salzberg Pinot Blanc is made for length and echoes leanly, like a perpetual motion machine."
Gernot Heinrich – Winemaking
On the Gols Salzberg, the Pinot Blanc vines grow biodynamically in sandy loam soil with a high lime content – actually in only two sun-exposed rows of vines. This wine is a performer on a grand stage, presenting the exciting narrative of its origin, the Gols Salzberg, and demonstrating the versatile repertoire of its grape variety: Pinot Blanc.
The Pinot Blanc grapes, hand-picked in mid-September 2018, come from a renowned vineyard: the Salzberg. Heike and Gernot Heinrich cultivate the vineyard with a great deal of manual work and care. After harvesting, the grapes remain on the mash overnight, then gently pressed and spontaneously fermented. The Heinrich Salzberg Pinot Blanc underwent a natural malolactic fermentation, in which the more aggressive malic acid is converted into milder lactic acid. This brings typical notes and, above all, a pleasant creaminess to the wine, which was allowed to mature for 18 months on its natural lees in large oak barrels before being bottled unfiltered in April 2020.
Pinot Blanc Salzberg – a wine and its values
- Origin Wine from Austria
- Growing region Burgenland
- Vineyard Gols Salzberg
- Grape variety Pinot Blanc
- 13% Vol. Alcohol
- 6.4 g/l Acidity
- 1.1 g/l Residual sugar
Organic Control Body BIO-AT-402 – Austrian Agriculture