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Weingut Schodl

Skin Contact Scheurebe & Gruner Veltliner 'Free Your Mind' 2023

$34.00

Skin Contact Scheurebe & Gruner Veltliner 'Free Your Mind' 2023

Weingut Schodl

Skin Contact Scheurebe & Gruner Veltliner 'Free Your Mind' 2023

$34.00

Certified Organic w/ biodynamic principles. 70% Grüner Veltliner, 30% Scheurebe. Fruit is taken from parcels all from the Schödl estate vineyards In den Kreuthern, Kirschgarten, and Blumenthal. The Grüner macerated for two days before adding Scheurebe berries; it was then cofermented on the skins in stainless steel for 3 weeks. Afterward, the wine was pressed off into 500L neutral barrels to age for seven months on full lees. Unfined/unfiltered, with 10 mg/l SO2 at bottling. 'Free Your Mind' is always a very limited release, one of the more playful wines the Schödls make--no one in Niederösterreich puts these two grape varieties together, hence the cuvée name.

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The winery is run by three open-minded siblings, Mathias, Viktoria, and Leonhard, who have traveled extensively from New Zealand to South Africa and New York to California. Together, the young siblings have converted their family winery in Weinviertel to organic production and produce handcrafted wines. In addition to their flagship grape variety Gruner Veltliner, the winery produces Riesling, Burgunder, and Roter Muskateller.

Their vineyards are in and around Loidesthal, Austria. Mathias focuses on the biodiversity in the vineyards; wild herbs, grasses and chamomile grow between the vines to provide living space for beneficial insects such as butterflies, ladybirds, and earthworms. It is fertilized only with natural compost.