Zweigelt Olivin, Winkler-Herden, Vulkanland-Steiermark, Austria

Zweigelt Olivin, Winkler-Hermaden. Rare red wine! Full of cherries, plums, herbs and leather, tobacco. Top Zweigelt, aged for 24 months in wood. From Vulkanland-Steiermark, where Zweigelt is sparsely planted. Complex and ripe red wine. This 2020 Olivin shows that Zweigelt can age perfectly. That's why Falstaff gives this wine 90 points and A la Carte even 94! Great wine from Austria. Organic wine.

• Serve: 14 °C
• Drink: now until 2035+

Zweigelt Olivin, Winkler-Hermaden, volcanic wine

Beautiful Zweigelt, organic dry red wine from Austria. Named after Olivine, an olive-green mineral found here in the volcanic soil. This has now become a true cult wine from Winkler-Hermaden in Vulkanland-Steiermark, in the far southeast of Austria. The estate - more a castle, with a hotel and restaurant - is located on top of an old volcano. Surrounded by vineyards and its own oak forests. They also make their own wine barrels from these forests.

The volcanic soil contains olivine, a soft, olive-green semi-precious stone. So this wine is named after it. Incidentally, ground olivine is also used to bind CO2.

Zweigelt is a cross between Blaufränkisch and Sankt Laurent, two indigenous Austrian grape varieties. This red wine grape is named after its creator, Friedrich Zweigelt, who crossed Blaufränkisch and Sankt Laurent in 1922 at the famous wine university in Klosterneuburg. Zweigelt is also known as Rotburger.

Full-bodied red wine from Austria. Wine made from the Zweigelt grape. Top wine, worth discovering.