Prieler Pinot Blanc “Steinweingarten” 2022

Name: Prieler Pinot Blanc "Steinweingarten" 2022
SKU: ATWAWPRWIWH775022
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SKU: ATWAWPRWIWH775022 Category: Wine

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96/100

This is a dry white wine from Austria’s Leithaberg DAC (Burgenland), made from 100% Pinot Blanc grapes from the Steinweingarten vineyard. Certified organic, stainless-steel fermentation with lees contact, highlighting finesse and mineral depth. Best drinking window: 2025–2038.

Light golden-yellow with silver reflections. Aromas of hazelnut, marzipan and white orchard fruit (pear, peach) with meadow herbs and a saline-mineral thread. On the palate it’s elegant and juicy, with crisp acidity, subtle sweetness and a salty-mineral finish.

Excellent with oysters, shellfish, crab salads, fresh goat or soft cheeses, and light poultry dishes.

Weingut Prieler

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Weingut Prieler is one of Burgenland's leading family-owned wineries, based in Schützen am Gebirge in the Leithaberg region. Since its establishment in 1972, the estate has earned an outstanding reputation for producing wines that faithfully express their unique terroir. Today, Georg and Silvia Prieler continue the family's commitment to sustainable viticulture, cultivating vineyards on limestone and slate soils with great respect for biodiversity. Best known for Blaufränkisch, Pinot Blanc, and Chardonnay, the estate combines meticulous vineyard work with minimal intervention in the cellar to craft elegant, mineral-driven wines that consistently receive international acclaim.

Pinot Blanc

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Pinot Blanc is flexible white-wine grape variety, it can produce quite different styles of wine, depending on winemaker techniques. It produces a medium to full-bodied wine with elevated acidity, good structure and responds well to oak influence. Pinot Blanc's varietal deep flavors characters often include apple and almond, and sometimes hint of smoke.

Burgenland

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Burgenland is a large wine-producing region on the eastern border of Austria. Despite the country's image as the producer of some of the world's finest white wines, Austria is also home to a thriving red wine culture: Burgenland, with its sunny, continental summers, is the country's key red wine region, with its wines based mainly on the Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt grape varieties. The region occupies a narrow strip of land that runs from the Danube River down to Steiermark in the south. On its eastern side is the border with Hungary, and to the west lies the most eastern foothills of the Alps. Steiermark aside, Burgenland is one of Austria's southernmost wine regions, and topographically is more aligned with Hungary than with much of the rest of Austria. Burgenland is home to four DAC appellations: from north to south; Neusiedlersee, Leithaberg, Mittelburgenland and Eisenberg. Within each of these zones, any wines which do not conform to the particular classification are labeled with the Burgenland appellation. Burgenland's Lake Neusiedl (Neusiedlersee) is one of the viticultural focus points of the region. It stores summer heat from the Pannonian Plain, an expansive, warm area which covers much of Hungary and eastern Austria, effectively lengthening the ripening season into autumn. In contrast to the other Burgenland DACs all of the wines of Leithaberg DAC qualify. Red wines must be made predominantly with Blaufränkisch. White grape varieties are Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc, Neuberger and Grüner Veltliner, either varietally or as a blend. Mittelburgenland, south of the Neusiedlersee, is perhaps the most notable of Burgenland's red wine regions. The spicy red wines made here from Blaufränkisch have garnered the region its own DAC title, and the variety accounts for more than half of all vineyard land in the region.