HANNES SABATHI WEINGUT: STYRIAN TERROIR & BURGUNDIAN PASSION (3)
THE TASTING PROOF
I tasted 6 wines, 3 from the Klassik, 2 from the Lagen and 1 from the Reserve range. My opinion about those wines is of course a personal one. This few tasting notes are just meant to tell you the impression those wines made on me (and my wife), not to tell you [...]
HANNES SABATHI WEINGUT: STYRIAN TERROIR & BURGUNDIAN PASSION (2)
HANNES PHILOSOPHY
I am sure one could write a whole book about Hannes philosophy. I will just refer to a few quotes and to his new, self-designed, wine labels.
Just look at his logo, it is pretty obvious what Hannes wants to tell us:
“The Earth makes the wine… it is the soil that makes the wine [...]
HANNES SABATHI WEINGUT: STYRIAN TERROIR & BURGUNDIAN PASSION (1)
Some weeks before the festive season, I received a nice message from Bettina Bäck (Wine & Partners). She wrote me about HANNES SABATHI, a 31 years old Styrian winemaker, whose wines (at least a couple of them) just had been introduced in the Netherlands. As I knew the importer, VINITES, and the talented wine buyer [...]
MAULE: O.FOURNIER PREMIUM TERROIR WINES (2)
This is another nearly unbelievable story that began officially in 2007. After 3 years of searching for the best terroirs and vineyards in Chile, the O.Fournier Group started its wine activity in two different regions. In the historical Maule, the group found exactly what they were looking for: 100-120 years old, non-irrigated vines, located in [...]
LOLOL: HACIENDA ARAUCANO
It was the second visit within 6 months to a winery belonging to the FRANÇOIS LURTON group. Read HERE about my visit to Bodega Lurton in Mendoza, where I met winemaker Luca Hodgkinson personally. Please read also the impressive story of the Lurton wine family at their website.
FRANÇOIS LURTON runs a big amount of wineries, [...]
