2020 Weingut Prieler Gemischter Satz

WINEMAKER: Georg Prieler
REGION: Burgenland, AT
VARIETAL: Gelber Muskateller, Grüner Veltliner, Sauvignon Blanc, Welschriesling
VITICULTURE: Certified Organic/Biodynamic

Georg's 'gemischter satz' or 'field blend'. Generous, chalky and textural. Juicy stone fruits, lime blossom, melon, a lick of spice.

The Prieler estate, in Schützen on the western side of the Lake Neusiedl, is a historic old farm, once dedicated to many types of agriculture but now specializing in grape growing. Two generations of the Prieler family now run the estate: Engelbert and Irmgard, who in 1972 focused the estate on quality production of several grape varieties, mainly blaufränkisch and Burgundian varieties. Their son, Georg, now heads the estate and continues working to best express the unique terroir of the Leithagebirge.

Prieler’s 20 hectares are currently cultivated in vineyards between the Leithagebirge, the last outpost of the eastern Alps that protect the vines from the western winds, and the Lake Neusiedl, which tempers the hot climate of the Pannonian plain. Soils vary dramatically in this area around the Schützen Stein. Seeberg vineyard contain fossil bearing limestone and are best suited, to Prieler’s outstanding Pinot Blanc. The iron-rich, brown loam of the Johanneshöhe on the slopes of the Leithaberg produces delicious blaufränkisch, while the Goldberg vineyard, filled with ‘glimmerschiefer’, or mica-schist, flecked with gold, produces one of the most important, world-class wines in all of Austria.