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NATURAL WINES BY GEORG SCHMELZER
Georg Schmelzer is the fourth generation of his family making wine in Gols, on the north side of Lake Neusiedl in Burgenland. The family farms around 10 hectares of gravel, sand and chalk, surrounded by farm animals, bees and flowers, and follow Rudolf Steiner's ideas closely, with horn manure and herbal preparations in the vineyards. The focus is on local grapes like Welschriesling, Zweigelt and Sämling.
Fermentations are spontaneous, ageing is mostly in neutral oak and nothing is added. For an easy start, try Bicolour, a red-white blend of Welschriesling and Zweigelt, or the Dion pét-nat from Sämling and Welschriesling, while the 1-litre Big Nature bottles are made for sharing. At the other end sits BergWerk, a Cabernet Sauvignon foot-crushed in the vineyard and sealed in a qvevri buried there for 322 days, until the next harvest.
