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Foot-crushed heavenly wines from Illmitz in Austria’s Burgenland

Christian Tschida ferments all of his wines in closed top tanks that sit outside in the shade in which the grapes are foot stomped. After this the juice is moved inside to barrel for aging. As of the 2015 vintage all of Christian’s wines are made without any additions of sulfur. The wines are never racked and everything is bottled by hand to preserve the freshness of the wine and leave a little residual carbon dioxide to aid preservation.

The Himmel Auf Erden wines: The grapes are hand harvested and destemmed. The juice ferments in large barrels with indigenous yeast. It spends 1 year aging in 500 to 1500 litre barrels and is bottled without fining or filtering. They all show fresh and racy characteristics with buoyant fruit making them very pleasing to sip quite quickly.

Himmel Auf Erden Weiss 2019

Pinot Blanc & Scheurebe

Himmel Auf Erden 2 Maischevergeron 2019 (skin contact for 2 weeks)

Scheurebe and several clones of Muscat 

Himmel Auf Erden Rosé 2019

Cabernet Franc

Laissez-Faire 2018

Riesling

This wine is produced from 40 year old vines and spends 2 years aging in large Stockinger barrels. A super alternative version of how we know Riesling to be.

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