St Laurent Trift

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Winemakers: Weingut Kiss

Austria Burgenland

A complement to our Fischer and Klosterneuburg St Laurent, a wilder side of it.

Winemaker	Weingut Kiss
Features	Unoaked, Low Intervention, "Slow Wine", Single Vineyard, Vegetarian and Vegan
Style	Red, Still, Dry, Single Variety
Varieties	Alpine Wines Grape Varieties:

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St Laurent Trift 2012 75cl cl

£19.44

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Why Choose This?

You like red wines that have developed tertiary aromas; meaty, savoury and forest floor

Why We Have It

A wilder St Laurent

What to expect

A developing style with lots of tertiary aromas.

More about

This is a beauty of a St Laurent everyone should taste.

If you aren't familiar with St Laurent this would be a definite puzzler of a wine, showing its more "pinot-ey" side especially in the nose.

In the nose there is all the forest on a summer walk, as you can get in Pinot too.

Once you sip the wine it's definitively not Pinot - more tannins, for one, beautiful smooth fruit, and the animal side is a very different beast from a Pinot.

Wine Details

Style	Red, Still, Dry, Single Variety
Winemaker	Weingut Kiss
Country	Austria
Region	Burgenland
Features	Unoaked, Low Intervention, "Slow Wine", Single Vineyard, Vegetarian and Vegan
Vineyard	Trift
Aged In	Steel, Foudre (big wood)
Closure	Screwcap
Varieties	St Laurent
Ripeness	Normal
Winemaking	Matured on the Lees, Low Added Sulphur, Malolactic

Serving Suggestions

Food Pairings: Game, wild pigeon, venison, wild boar

Tasting Notes

Tasting Notes

A multi layered wine with a powerful bouquet, some fine smoke, lots of tertiary meaty, savoury notes followed by some dark spicy fruit. Its definitely the more animal side of St. Laurent

Vintages

2012
Product Code	43KS0412
Size	75cl
Alcohol	13
In a nutshell	Still fresh as a daisy and delicious
Arrived	13 Sept 2021
Last Tasted	3 Jul 2021
mature evolution?	No
Also Available at	Brigitte Bordeaux, Corkage, Cornelius Wine and Beer, Dulwich Vintners, DVine Cellars, Godfrey C Williams & Son, The Good Wine Shop , Grape Minds, Islington Wines, The Salusbury Wine Store, Sarahs Cellar, Seasons Kitchen and Farm Shop, Vineyards Wine Shop, Vinotopia, Vino Vero, Wined Up Here, The Wine Reserve, The Wine Twit, Woburn Wine Cellar
Case Size	6
Sweetness	dry
Closure	Screwcap
Allergens	Contains Sulphites

The wine produced is from 22 year old vines from the Trift vineyard and is one of the best top quality St. Laurent around and is unusual in that its oaked.

Concentration of flavour is the focus in the vineyard with spring pruning and green harvesting aiming to lower yields. They harvest at the end of September , depending on the weather. St Laurent is a bit of a Diva! It's high maintenance with varying harvest yields (in 2012 only 4,000kg translating into 1,400 bottles in the cellar).

The wine undergoes a 20-28 post fermentation maceration. Its then put into 225L French oak barriques with a medium toast (a mix of 1^st/2^nd/3^rd Fill).

A small amount of SO2 added after this and the wine is left in barrel for 12 months.

This produces a multi layered wine with a powerful bouquet, some fine smoke, lots of tertiary meaty, savoury notes followed by some dark spicy fruit. Its definitely the more animal side of St. Laurent