AEIOU 2022 - Christian Tschida

A new cuvée from Christian Tschida! AEIOU, it may not sound nice, but it is! Beautiful length and with aromas of white stone fruit, marzipan, mandarins and nutty nuances with a sizzling, salty finish. Complex and yet so drinkable. A whole new beauty. 100% Chardonnay from old vines, the best of the best. Chardonnay like you've never drunk it before

• Country / region: Austria / Neusiedlersee (Burgenland)
• Grape variety(ies): Chardonnay
• In the vineyard: Grapes harvested by hand. Lime, quartz and schist terroir. Vineyards between 115-240 meters altitude. Biodynamic farming.
  
• In the wine cellar: Grapes lightly crushed with the feet, slow, spontaneous (malo) fermentation. Free-run 'pressing'. One year of maturation in old wooden barrels. Unfiltered. Without addition of sulphites
• Quality mark: Biodynamic and Vin Nature

Christian Tschida is one of the biggest rock stars in Vin Nature at the moment. Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen has been serving Tschida wines in its wine pairings for years. Even now with the huge increase in high-end restaurants and the increasing supply of high-quality natural wines, Tschida remains number one. Because many natural wine lovers see Christian Tschida as a kind of demigod, his cult status is only growing. Even sommeliers in Austria have to make an effort for his wines.

The most remarkable thing about Tschida is that he uses 30% of the 'free run'. This gives his wines a particularly elegant character, very pure and sometimes even light.

The Tschida family has been making wine in Illmitz (Neusiedlersee) since the 19th century and Christian still works some of these old family vineyards. When Christian took over the family estate in 2003, many former customers found his way of making wine ridiculous. Low in alcohol and too high in minerality and juiciness. Fortunately, his wine was selected by a large local bank, who served it at their stylish business lunches. Funny enough, only because they didn't want the executives to get drunk. Funny or not, Tschida is now part of the canon of vin nature, not only in Austria, but throughout the Western Hemisphere.