![]() As for the price of the source winery? Their bottles start at $150, rise to $600, and climb to $1,000 per bottle at auction. Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate has bestowed at least 45 scores hitting 95 and above, and nearly ten wines have earned 100-point scores. While the winery will maintain radio silence, we can tell you it is the very definition of a critical darling. Like the many, many pages of an NDA we signed about the grape source for this positively monumental Cabernet. We’re quietly thrilled to share the 2017 Radio Silence Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley. On that note, great wine leads to a kind of drop-dead silence all its own, doesn’t it? Silence, Cage posited, is in actuality bursting with sound. The piece was “The Roaring Silence,” by composer John Cage. By the time he raised the piano lid to take a bow, members of the audience were losing it. ![]() Tudor sat there for exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds without playing a single note. Pianist David Tudor walked on stage at the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, New York, sat in front of a grand piano, took out a stopwatch, and closed the lid. Elizabeth II was named the Queen of England, and the first hydrogen bomb was tested at the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean-rather noisy affairs. Perfect with roasted vegetables, Alpine cheese such as Comte or Gruyere or even risotto bianco.Quite a few interesting things happened in 1952. Fabulous razor like acidity, gentle tannic grip from the skins and generous fruit with every mouthful. Gentle fining and cold stabilisation.Ī delightful blend of Riesling, Gruner Veltliner, Gewurztraminer and Muscat which offers up notes of ginger, white pepper and flowers, with an underlying hint of green tea and mandarin. There is no malolactic fermentation but the wine benefits from 8 weeks of lees contact. The grapes are pressed and left in contact with the skins to extract the orange colour and additional flavour compound, then the must is fermented in stainless steel tank with selected yeasts for 15 to 25 days at controlled temperatures which get warmer the nearer they get to the end of fermentation. The winery is energy neutral, producing energy from their Biogas plant and a Photovoltaic system which produces more energy than is required. Vineyards are sited at approximately 230 to 300m ASL and are mostly orientated South, South East and South West, on terraces with an incline of between 10 and 40 degrees.Ĥ5% Riesling 35% Gruner Veltliner 20% Others including Gewurztraminer & Muscat The grapes are harvested carefully, early in the morning by hand and machine from 15 year + old trellis grown vines in Weinviertel within the Niederosterreich region which are sited on loess, clay, granite mix soils and where the climate is cool continental. They produce their own seeds to sew cover crops in the vineyards and use straw from the fields in the young vineyards to protect the vines from dry stress. Sustainably certified by agroVet, they also produce their own fertiliser. Grapes are harvested in the early morning to harness acidity and pure fruit expression and taken to their energy neutral winery for vinification. ![]() The south-east and south-west exposure of the slopes provides conditions for perfect ripening. All work in the vineyard is carried out sustainably, with the use of their own fertilisers made from grape skins, manure and straw from their fields, to improve the soil structure and vitality of their vines. We’ve worked with a 16th generation producer in Niederosterreich to put together this characterful range. It all started with Gruner, then Zweigelt and now Funkstille is a quartet including Riesling and a Skin Contact wine … capturing Austria’s most famous varieties and archetypal styles under some eye-popping packaging. Now more than ever we need a little ‘Funkstille’ or radio silence in our lives, so it was only natural that as interest and desire for Austrian wines grew, so would our range.
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