GUT OGGAU - Edmund - Vin Orange 2019
Gut Oggau is located in Oggau am Neusiedler See in Burgenland, Austria. It was established by Eduard and Stephanie Tscheppe in 2007. Before starting the winery, Eduard made conventional wine with his father in Styria, and Stephanie’s family owned and operated a Michelin starred restaurant. They restored the 17th century winery that had been abandoned for 20 years, including its 200-year-old screw press. The vines’ 20-year period of neglect was fortunate, as this allowed for all pesticide and chemical treatments to be washed away. This let them begin working immediately on vines biodynamically, where they are now fully Demeter certified. When they began to work with the wines in the cellar, they noticed that each wine seemed so alive with its own personality, that they decided to craft labels centered around the personality inside each bottle. Thus, they created a family of wines: each wine is given a name of one family member and the artist Jung von Matt draws a face for each label. Most of the vineyards are field blended, and therefore there is little mention of grape varieties here, but they do work with 6 main grape varieties– Blaufrankish, Zweigelt Grüner Veltliner, Welchriesling, Weissburgunder and Gewurtzraminer.
Edmund has come a long way and makes himself pretty rare with his 0.5 hectares and 300 litres of wine. He is the rather unconventional type, but all the more expressive. Behind his appearance as a dissident, who defies the norms of society, hides a gentle and lovable character. The wine is a blend of white grape varieties from an uncut and untilled wild plot planted in the 1970s. The grapes are fermented in an open wooden vat, and matured in a used 225-litres Stockinger barrel. The wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered and without the addition of sulfur.
Grape varieties: Unknown white field blend