Funkstille Gruner Veltliner

Intro to Funkstille Gruner Veltliner –

Funkstille Gruner Veltliner is a deliciously refreshing crisp white wine full of citrussy and pear fruit flavours.

Full tasting note and wine making –

Funkstille Gruner Veltliner has subtle exotic hints of ripe pear and fresh citrus flavours and it is a dry wine with complex flavours. The palate is rich with flavours of melon and grapefruit with a refreshing, zippy finish.

The vineyards are sustainably certified by agroVet and they also produce their own fertiliser and their own seeds to sow cover crops in the vineyards and use straw from the fields in the young vineyards to protect the vines from dry stress. The grapes are harvested carefully, early in the morning by hand and by machine from fifteen year or more old trellis grown vines in Weinviertel within the Niederösterreich region. They are sited on loess, clay, granite mix soils  where the climate is cool continental. The vineyards are sited at approximately 230 to 300m above sea level and are mostly orientated South, South East and South West, on terraces with an incline of between 10 and 40 degrees.

The winery is energy neutral, producing energy from their Biogas plant and a Photovoltaic system which produces more energy than is required. The grapes are pressed and the must is fermented in stainless steel tank with selected yeasts for 15 to 25 days at controlled temperatures which get warmer the nearer they get to the end of fermentation. There is no malolactic fermentation but the wine benefits from eight weeks of lees contact followed by gentle fining and cold stabilisation prior to bottling.

The producer –

Now more than ever we need a little ‘Funkstille’ or radio silence in our lives, so it was only natural that as interest and desire for Austrian wines grew, so would our range.

It all started with Grüner, then Zweigelt and now Funkstille is a quartet including Riesling and a Skin Contact wine … capturing Austria’s most famous varieties and archetypal styles under some eye-popping packaging. We’ve worked with a 16th generation producer in Niederösterreich to put together this characterful range. All work in the vineyard is carried out sustainably, with the use of their own fertilisers made from grape skins, manure and straw from their fields, to improve the soil structure and vitality of their vines. The south-east and south-west exposure of the slopes provides conditions for perfect ripening. Grapes are harvested in the early morning to harness acidity and pure fruit expression, and taken to their energy neutral winery for vinification.

Drink with –

Chicken or turkey, grilled fish and salads.