Red wine · Selection line
Zweigelt selection: all vintages
Zweigelt selection is a dry red wine from the Selection line.
This page lists four vintages of Zweigelt selection, from 2021 to 2025.
The grapes for Zweigelt selection grow in the Ried Hutweide vineyard.
The vintages
In the shop: Zweigelt selection 2022 and 2023. Coming soon: 2025. Sold out: 2021. All four vintages of Zweigelt selection have a state inspection number.
- Zweigelt selection 2025coming soonThermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20912/26
- Zweigelt selection 2023availableThermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20537/24
- Zweigelt selection 2022availableRied Hutweide, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20847/23
- Zweigelt selection 2021sold outNiederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20781/22
Where the wine comes from
For Zweigelt selection, 2022 comes from the Ried Hutweide vineyard in Teesdorf. Zweigelt selection carries the origin Niederösterreich (2021 and 2022) and Thermenregion DAC (2023 and 2025). Must weight 2021: 20 °KMW. Harvest 2022: 07.10.2022, 20,5 °KMW. Harvest 2023: 27.09.2023, 20 °KMW. Harvest 2025: 29.09.2025, 20,5 °KMW.
How it tastes
All vintages of Zweigelt selection are made dry. 2022 and 2023: red berry fruit, long finish. The acidity of Zweigelt selection ranges from 5,1 to 5,7 g/l.
In the cellar
After fermentation, Zweigelt selection spends twelve months in used wooden barrels.
Soil and cover crops
The vineyards of Zweigelt selection 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 selection earliest in 2023, on 27 September, and latest in 2022, on 7 October. The must weight ranged from 20 to 20.5 °KMW. Each vintage's batch came to between 2,000 and 3,000 litres.
The figures compared
Depending on the vintage, the residual sugar of Zweigelt selection was between 0.8 and 3.7 g/l. Its sugar-free extract, meaning everything dissolved apart from water, alcohol and sugar, ranges from 25.5 to 28.9 g/l. The laboratory measured its total sulphur at between 65 and 81 mg/l. Each vintage only receives its official inspection number after laboratory analysis and tasting by an official panel.
The Selection line
Zweigelt selection belongs to our Selection line, which is allowed to mature longer than Classic.
Awards
Zweigelt selection has received 9 awards so far, for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 vintages. The highest went to 2022: Winner (Intervino Wine Award).