I must confess that when in Austria I rarely venture outside the Wachau, but boy am I glad I tried this from Südsteiermark!
A mix of 50% Sauvignon Blanc and 50% Chardonnay has been kept two years in cask after pressing on the lees. The colour is deep golden, hence the suffix. The nose is very ripe and intense with notes of maracuja, williams pear and overripe mango.
You find lots of intense, exotic fruits and spices on the palate, too, but tannins from the skins keep it in perfect balance. Minerality and salty tones make the wine very interesting and exciting. A very intellectual and new territory wine that you should serve your open-minded wine loving friends. What will happen with this in the cellar I do not know, but I sure will love to find out and thus bought the maximum allocation, which is very rare for me.
Greetings from Sweden / Fredrik L
