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Erich Machherndl

The Machherndl family has farmed this Wösendorf estate ever since 1786. The current incumbent, Erich Machherndl, vintage 1972, took over in 1998 after the wine scandal of 1986 had prompted his family to suggest he train in medical technology rather than attend viticultural college. Faced with his father’s retirement in 1998, he had the chance to sell or carry on and decided to take over his home estate. He attended viticultural college in Krems but has never stuck “to a standard recipe,” starting to experiment right away. He owns seven hectares of vines, leases one further hectare, and makes 20 to 30 wines yearly. Half of the plantings are Grüner Veltliner, 16% are Riesling, and the rest are Grau- and Weissburgunder, Chardonnay, Frühroter Veltliner, Gelber Muskateller, Zweigelt and Syrah. For his white wines, 24 hours of skin contact with destemmed grapes is key, as is the fermentation of cloudy, unsedimented juice and full malolactic conversion. Botrytis is absolutely avoided in any dry wine. His textural wines have much personality without adding any weight or fat. His more light-hearted Pulp Fiction series of wines is a playground of sorts for absolutely thirst-quenching, funky (but whistle-clean) but serious wines.

From 2023 Wachau and Lower Austria: Mercurial Weather Gods Smiled in the End (Jul 2024) by Anne Krebiehl MW

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2021 Grüner Veltliner Ried Hochrain Smaragd

Color: White

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