Oszkar Maurer 'Crazy Lud' Serbia Red 2022

Oszkar Maurer 'Crazy Lud' Serbia Red 2022Oszkar Maurers family has been making wine for four generations in what was part of Hungary until 1920. He works organically and has been helping mentor younger winemakers and assisting them with wine and farming equipment so that they can also showcase the special qualities of the region. Many of his labels feature artwork from children in his home village. Crazy Lud has a goose on it because lud means goose in Hungarian and crazy in Serbian. Its

For the “Amygdalos” she is working with a grape called Vidiano

encouraging biodiversity in the vineyard and rigorously managing yields

Shake gently to incorporate sediment and enjoy cold

The wine ferments in neutral wood

planted in 1985 and 1988 on clay and sandy soils

then pressed to rest in the same tinajas to rest for 5 months before bottling without fining

tannic wines

Rosalind fermented the juice in a mix of old barrel and concrete tank

red and white grapes are  inter-planted

meaty depth

The 2009 is the current release

She continuously makes some of the most elegant wines I encounter