Blaufränkisch "Bühl" 2017 - Claus Preisinger (vin nature)

The highest cuvée of Claus made from 100% Blaufränkisch. Firm, powerful and full of red fruit. Red and black cherry, spices, ripe acids and yes, a little bit of point grinding. Grand cru of the Neusiedlersee. Very high aging potential of at least 20 years. Definitely. Very tasty with game, goulash and hard-matured cheeses. Case of light the public but.

Where his wine 'Paradigma' has a traditional style, Bühl is an elegant, pure style Blaufränkisch with sufficient expression and a very long finish. A wine with many layers and Bühl belongs to the absolute top within (pure & clean) natural wine.

• Country / region: Austria / Austrian Qualitätswein (Burgenland)
• Grape variety(ies): 10 0% Blaufränkisch
• In the vineyard: Vines between 37 and 52 years old, located on the southwest. Terroir consisting of clay, gravel and sandy loam. Harvested entirely by hand.
• In the cellar: Spontaneous fermentation. Grapes 70% semi-carbonic maceration for 10 days, 30% carbonic maceration on the skins for 10 days. Maturation in small, used oak barrels for 11 months. Unfiltered, without addition of So2.
• Quality mark: Biodynamic, vegan / Vin nature

Claus Preisinger is a talented young Austrian winemaker who has become an established name in the biodynamic/natural wine scene. At the Neusiedlersee, near Gols, his father cultivated a small 3 ha of orchards, as a hobby. After helping his father in the orchards for years and experience in California and with neighbor Hans Nittnaus, he took over his father's orchards in 2000. Claus has managed to expand these to a whopping 17 ha. On a soil consisting predominantly of fossil limestone and calcareous sandstone , he cultivates mainly local Blaufrankisch, together with St. Laurent, Zweigelt, Pinot Noir, Weissburgunder, Gruner Veltliner and Welschriesling. Gols is located on the eastern side of the Neusiedlersee in the so-called Seewinkel. This extends to the Hungarian border. Here it is scorching hot in the summer, resulting in the production of top red wines. They can compete worldwide. "My wines are a mirror image of nature. I do not intervene artificially in the vineyard or in the cellar. Even if I can improve the result, I still accept what nature gives of itself instead of intervening and manipulating." According to Claus Preisinger.

Claus is also co-founder of Pannobile (2004), a collective from Burgenland of 9 winegrowers (including Nittnaus and Pittnauer) who have been working the vineyards strictly biodynamically since 1994 and making natural wine in the wine cellar. Nothing out and nothing in. With the exception of his playful 'Beaujolais wine' Puszta Libre, Claus' wines are clean/pure and especially show the terroir well in the wine. Claus uses various methods and techniques to make different styles of wine. From Ancestral (Perlwein), fresh Puszta Libre that is drunk chilled (Maceration Carbonique), elegant white wines with skin maceration (Orange wine), top white wines to very powerful full red wines. Der Claus shows that natural wine does not have to be full of wine faults, but can be very good, pure and clean. Pure vin nature.