Revolution, Pink Solera, Johannes Zillinger NV

Fresh strawberry salad with sesame seed ice cream packed inside the bottle. Kick your shoes, lay down and enjoy the sunshine.

All three grape varieties ferment and age separately and are blended at bottling. Half of the Rösler grapes are kept in whole bunches and half are destemmed and pressed straight away. The Syrah is gently destemmed and soaked for two days before pressing. The St.Laurent is fermented and aged in amphora for 12 months. The different vintages of St.Laurent are matured in steel tank in a solera system.

Picture mother nature left in peace to do her own thing: Yes, that exists! In Velm-Götzendorf, now for more than 30 years, the biodynamic vineyard of the Zillinger family – first ran by Hans and now his son, Johannes – is an exceptional example of what ‘natural’ truly means. From home-made compost, to growing their herbs, they are guided by strong principles of biodynamic agriculture..

Johannes believes in letting nature going its own way. To help this process he aims to interfere in both vineyard and the cellar as little as possible. In his own words “if you work on healthy soil in the vineyard, you get healthy vines, which produce more exciting wines. And most of all, if you let the good things simply take their course in the cellar.”

Zillinger’s wines are quintessentially nature’s magic inside a bottle.