Setzer Weinviertel Zweigelt 2022 CS20230828 coaxing wines of serious backbone

coaxing wines of serious backbone and rose-petal complexity

There are few wines in the world more cultishly admired than those of Valentini — the Abruzzese estate that Francesco Paolo Valentini continues to run in the singular

This wine was created with the intent to obtain a product having the traditional features of the Lambrusco of former days

this is Pinotage worth reconsidering

Paolo Bea is an Umbrian superstar and one of the founding fathers of Italy's natural wine movement

Setzer Weinviertel Zweigelt 2022 CS20230828 coaxing wines of serious backboneZweigelt is Austria's most planted red grape and one of the great under the radar pleasures in wine: a 20th century crossing of Blaufrnkisch and St. Laurent that gives dark, juicy fruit with almost no tannic weight. Setzer's comes from Hohenwarth in the Weinviertel, where the family has farmed since 1705 and where sandy, limestone rich soils keep the wine lifted instead of heavy. Put a light chill on it and it becomes one of the most useful bottles