Vintage 2025

Our Zweigelt selection 2025 had its turn on 29 September 2025, at 20,5 °KMW. Like the whole Austrian harvest in 2025, that fell within the usual window. The August before had been marked by warm days and cool nights.

Zweigelt is Austria's most widely planted red variety, and this one belongs to our selection range. It is made dry. The 2025 harvest gave 3.000 litres of wine.

The 2025 harvest

The must for Zweigelt selection 2025 measured 20.5 °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 selection 2025 has 13.4 % vol. alcohol, 0.8 g/l residual sugar and 5.6 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 selection 2025 is 27.9 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 37 mg/l free and 81 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 326 kJ or 78 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20912/26 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Selection line

Zweigelt selection 2025 belongs to our Selection line, which is allowed to mature longer than Classic. It spends twelve months in used wooden barrels after fermentation.

Selection winemaking step by step

Vintage 2022

Our 2022 Zweigelt selection grew in Ried Hutweide in Teesdorf. The harvest was on 7 October. It brings red berry fruit to the glass and lingers long on the palate.

The batch comes to 2.000 litres, and it's available at the winery. The Zweigelt selection 2022 earned gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2024 and a place in the SALON Österreich Wein 2024.

Ried Hutweide

The grapes for Zweigelt selection 2022 grow in the Ried Hutweide 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

The must for Zweigelt selection 2022 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 selection 2022 has 13.2 % vol. alcohol, 3.4 g/l residual sugar and 5.7 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 selection 2022 is 28.9 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 31 mg/l free and 69 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 323 kJ or 78 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20847/23 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Selection line

Zweigelt selection 2022 belongs to our Selection line, which is allowed to mature longer than Classic. It spends twelve months in used wooden barrels after fermentation.

Selection winemaking step by step

Vintage 2021

The Zweigelt selection 2021 is gone, not a bottle is left at the estate. It was dry, and the batch ran to 2.000 litres. Across Austria around 2,46 million hectolitres were harvested in 2021, with the Thermenregion down 6 % on 2020.

The 2021 harvest

The must for Zweigelt selection 2021 measured 20 °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 selection 2021 has 13.1 % vol. alcohol, 1.1 g/l residual sugar and 5.1 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 selection 2021 is 25.5 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 41 mg/l free and 75 mg/l total sulphur. It received the official inspection number N 20781/22 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Selection line

Zweigelt selection 2021 belongs to our Selection line, which is allowed to mature longer than Classic. It spends twelve months in used wooden barrels after fermentation.

Selection winemaking step by step