Blaufränkisch, Reinfeld, Burgenland, Austria

Blaufränkisch, Reinfeld, Burgenland. Full-bodied red wine from Blaufränkisch from Austria. Wine from the sympathetic winemaker Martin Reinfeld from Burgenland. Blaufränkisch is mainly recognizable by cherries and blackberries and this wine has plenty of that! Furthermore chocolate, leather, violets, nice acids and medium tannins. Tasty red wine with a bite. Also try his other wines such as the Grüner Veltliner .

Blaufränkisch is also known as Lemberger and Limberger in Germany and as Kékfrankos in Hungary.

• Serving: 15 °C
• Drink: now until 2028

The soil of the Leithaberg vineyards here consists of brown clay soil. Ideal for Blaufränkisch. Clay retains water, so that the vines can find enough water even with little rainfall. The brown clay also contains a lot of iron, which gives this wine a fine and typical minerality. Martin Reinfeld let this wine mature in used barrels to prevent wood tones from dominating the taste of the fruit.

Blaufränkisch, an idiosyncratic wine grape from Austria

Together with St. Laurent, Blaufränkisch is an original grape from Austria. And Zweigelt? That one is better known, but that is a cross between St. Laurent and Blaufränkisch. Blaufränkisch produces deep red wines with lots of dark fruit (blackberries, black cherries) with beautiful aftertaste of black olive, leather, ink, pencil, violets. It can mature well on wood, but that should not dominate.