Vintage 2024

The Zweigelt reserve came into the cellar on 19 September 2024. The year had started with budburst some three weeks ahead of time, and in Lower Austria picking then ran from the beginning of September. It is a dry red. The batch: 1.200 litres.

Village wine from Tattendorf

Zweigelt reserve 2024 is a village wine (Ortswein) of the Thermenregion DAC: its grapes come from vineyards in the municipality of Tattendorf, so it carries the village rather than a single vineyard in its name. The vineyards there lie on pure gravel that holds hardly any water and naturally has little humus. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.

How we care for the soil

The 2024 harvest

The must for Zweigelt reserve 2024 measured 21 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

What the figures say

Zweigelt reserve 2024 has 13.5 % vol. alcohol, 1.8 g/l residual sugar and 5.8 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of Zweigelt reserve 2024 is 28.4 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 28 mg/l free and 71 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 328 kJ or 78 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20914/26 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

Zweigelt reserve 2024 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step

Vintage 2023

The Zweigelt reserve 2023 comes from a small year. In the Thermenregion 16 % less wine was harvested than in 2022, and across Austria it was 8 % less.

Dark cherry shapes it, the body is full and powerful. There are 1.500 litres of it. The Zweigelt reserve 2023 earned gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2026 and an award at the Thermenregion DAC Trophy 2025.

Village wine from Tattendorf

Zweigelt reserve 2023 is a village wine (Ortswein) of the Thermenregion DAC: its grapes come from vineyards in the municipality of Tattendorf, so it carries the village rather than a single vineyard in its name. The vineyards there lie on pure gravel that holds hardly any water and naturally has little humus. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.

How we care for the soil

The 2023 harvest

The must for Zweigelt reserve 2023 measured 20.5 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

Awards

What the figures say

Zweigelt reserve 2023 has 13.1 % vol. alcohol, 2.2 g/l residual sugar and 5.3 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of Zweigelt reserve 2023 is 27.2 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 35 mg/l free and 61 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 320 kJ or 76 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20334/25 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

Zweigelt reserve 2023 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step

Vintage 2022

Zweigelt reserve, 2022 vintage, from the Ried Gestein vineyard in Teesdorf: we harvested it on 7 October. Austria's 2022 reds were considered powerful, with velvety tannins. Ours has a strong, full body and aromas of dark cherry.

There are 1.200 litres of it. The Zweigelt reserve 2022 was recognised with gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2026 and an award at the Thermenregion DAC Trophy 2024.

Ried Gestein

The grapes for Zweigelt reserve 2022 grow in the Ried Gestein vineyard in Teesdorf, on pure gravel that holds hardly any water and naturally has little humus. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.

View the vineyard site on riedenkarten.at

How we care for the soil

The 2022 harvest

Der Most für Zweigelt reserve 2022 hatte 20,5 °KMW: Die Klosterneuburger Mostwaage misst, wie viel Zucker im Traubensaft steckt, ein Grad entspricht etwa einem Prozent.

Awards

What the figures say

Zweigelt reserve 2022 has 13.1 % vol. alcohol, 1.0 g/l residual sugar and 5.9 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of Zweigelt reserve 2022 is 27.7 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 32 mg/l free and 64 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 319 kJ or 76 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20541/24 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

Zweigelt reserve 2022 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step

Vintage 2020

The Zweigelt reserve 2020 is no longer available, not a bottle of the 1.600 litres is left. At harvest the grapes brought 20 °KMW. Before the harvest, high sugar levels with enough acidity had been forecast for Austria, along with fruity, harmonious wines.

The Zweigelt reserve 2020 earned gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards and silver at AWC Vienna 2022.

The 2020 harvest

The must for Zweigelt reserve 2020 measured 20 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

Awards

What the figures say

Zweigelt reserve 2020 has 13.2 % vol. alcohol, 1.0 g/l residual sugar and 5.3 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of Zweigelt reserve 2020 is 25.1 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 46 mg/l free and 64 mg/l total sulphur. It received the official inspection number N 14447/22 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

Zweigelt reserve 2020 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step