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Jutta Ambrositsch

Harvest chez Ambrositsch began in mid-September 2016 and lasted four weeks, so there was ample opportunity for grapes to benefit from cool temperatures both on the vine and at the crush pad. Those parameters almost count as late harvest by very recent Viennese standards, but Jutta Ambrositsch and Marco Kalchbrenner are nonetheless following through on a recent resolve to harvest at lower must weights than in their early years, which will usually mean picking slightly earlier than they would once have done. “Fermentations were steady and complete,” observed Ambrositsch, and finished up by January 2017.

As intimated when they announced the decision to jettison their major venture in the nearby northern Thermenregion after just one vintage, Ambrositsch and Kalchbrenner have been able to expand on both sides of the Danube the Viennese vine acreage under their control – including a share in the celebrated Preussen vineyard on a 25-year lease – though these expansions will largely come online only with their 2017 collection. New, too, in vintage 2017 will be the names and other label details of their wines. As a price for the couple’s refusal to go along with the official system of wine classification but to instead register their bottlings merely as “Austrian Wine,” they are now forbidden to mention those historic Viennese districts (originally satellite wine villages) – much less the vineyards – in which their wines grow. One final, much more encouraging new development is Jutta Ambrositsch’s return after a dozen years’ absence to crafting a single small barrel of Blaufränkisch from her native Südburgenland, a development on which I shall report at a later date. (For details concerning this estate’s vineyards, practices and recent history, including accounts of the grape varieties and microclimates associated with its Gemischte Sätze, I encourage readers to consult the extended introductions to my reports on its 2013s, 2014s and 2015s.)

From 2016 Austrian Riesling & Grüner Veltliner (Oct 2018) by David Schildknecht

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