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2009 – An elegant vintage full of finesse

After a long, cold winter with high humidity spring rapidly came around.
Very warm spring days and a lasting dry period resulted in early budding and caused rapid vine growth. During blossoming, however, rainy weather occurred; the fruit set up was heavily impaired and lower yields were to be expected.
During the vegetation period vines were supplied with sufficient water and grape development proceeded very well.
However, on July 23rd an enormous storm broke out, uprooted trees in Vienna and untiled roofs. This hurricane did enormous damage, but even more dramatic was the damaged caused by the simultaneous heavy hale storm.

Luckily enough the storm was followed by warm and dry weather which dried out the damaged grapes rapidly and prevented any quality impairment.
Harvesting started on September 16th with the Grüner Veltliner and ended on October 28th  with the Riesling Trockenbeerenauslese. The required selection process was particularly severe.
The quantities harvested were extremely low, partly because only 15% of an average yield is selected. Production required particularly careful and sensible procedures. The result is surprising: we were able to vinificate one of the most exciting and characteristic vintages, despite extremely difficult circumstances.