Barbara Ohlzelt 'Kitz' Gemischter Satz 2021

Barbara Ohlzelt 'Kitz' Gemischter Satz 2021Press 4 White March 2023 Direct Press Selection Barbara hlzelt is another in Austria's Kamptal region who, along with Arndorfer and Jurtschitsch, are going against the grain, making lighter, fresher wines instead of the more powerful, rich style that has been Kamptal's claim to fame. Barbara's first vintage was 2004 and she has been unassumingly making some of the most precise, crisply detailed wines in the area with just seven hectares of vines. The

The bottles are put upright for about three months

Franc de Pied is an experimental plot of ungrafted Cabernet Franc vines (most vines are grafted onto American rootstock to prevent phylloxera) in the same sandy Galichets vineyard featured in this month's Direct Press in a version from the Breton's neighbors Domaine de la Chevalerie

before being racked to neutral French oak barrels for an additional 6 months aging

and Paula Chodin Param and her husband Arnaldo Batista worked with Roberto Henríquez before beginning their own project

Lucien Aviet (nicknamed 'Bacchus

20g/L SO2 added

Great with a little chill

but with some patience it will be an interesting

The blended wine is bottled with a liquor di tirage (a solution of wine

She was able to produce 2 vintages off of the vineyard before it was lost to wildfires in 2020

it isn’t overpowering

soft and layered