Red wine · Reserve line
Zweigelt reserve: all vintages
Zweigelt reserve is a dry red wine from the Reserve line.
This page lists five vintages of Zweigelt reserve, from 2020 to 2024.
The grapes for Zweigelt reserve grow in the Ried Gestein vineyard.
The vintages
In the shop: Zweigelt reserve 2021. Coming soon: 2022, 2023 and 2024. Sold out: 2020. All five vintages of Zweigelt reserve have a state inspection number.
- Zweigelt reserve 2024coming soonThermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20914/26
- Zweigelt reserve 2023coming soonThermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20334/25
- Zweigelt reserve 2022coming soonRied Gestein, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20541/24
- Zweigelt reserve 2021availableRied Gestein, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20853/23
- Zweigelt reserve 2020sold outNiederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 14447/22
Where the wine comes from
For Zweigelt reserve, the 2021 and 2022 vintages come from Ried Gestein in Teesdorf. Zweigelt reserve carries the origin Niederösterreich (2020, 2021 and 2022) and Thermenregion DAC (2023 and 2024). Must weight at harvest 2020: 20 °KMW. Harvest 2021: 05.10.2021, 21 °KMW. Harvest 2022: 07.10.2022, 20,5 °KMW. Must weight at harvest 2023: 20,5 °KMW. Harvest 2024: 19.09.2024, 21 °KMW.
How it tastes
All vintages of Zweigelt reserve are made dry. 2021, 2022 and 2023: powerful, full body, dark cherry aromas. The acidity of Zweigelt reserve ranges from 5,3 to 5,9 g/l.
In the cellar
For Zweigelt reserve, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used, depending on variety and vintage.
Soil and cover crops
The vineyards of Zweigelt reserve in Teesdorf lie on pure gravel that holds hardly any water and naturally has little humus. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.
The harvests compared
We harvested Zweigelt reserve earliest in 2024, on 19 September, and latest in 2022, on 7 October. The must weight ranged from 20 to 21 °KMW. Each vintage's batch came to between 1,200 and 1,600 litres.
The figures compared
Depending on the vintage, the residual sugar of Zweigelt reserve was between 1.0 and 2.2 g/l. Its sugar-free extract, meaning everything dissolved apart from water, alcohol and sugar, ranges from 25.1 to 28.4 g/l. The laboratory measured its total sulphur at between 60 and 71 mg/l. Each vintage only receives its official inspection number after laboratory analysis and tasting by an official panel.
The Reserve line
Zweigelt reserve belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us.
Awards
Zweigelt reserve has received 24 awards so far, for the 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 vintages. The highest went to 2021: Winner (Biosphärenpark Wienerwald).