Red wine · Niederösterreich · Reserve line
Merlot reserve 2022
Bright ruby, ripe cherries, powerful tannins.
State winnerLower Austria State Wine Awards
- Grape variety
- Merlot
- Vineyard site
- Hutweide, Teesdorf
- Alcohol
- 13.8 % Vol.
- Residual sugar
- 1.0 g/ldry
- Acidity
- 6.1 g/l
How it tastes
bright rubyripe cherriespowerful tannins
Sweetness1.0 g/l · dry
Body13.8 % Vol.
Acidity6.1 g/l
Vintage 2022
Our 2022 Merlot reserve comes from Ried Hutweide, which lies in Teesdorf. We harvested it on 3 October 2022. Austria brought in noticeably more red wine that year: 788.600 hectolitres, up 8 %. It's a bright ruby, with ripe cherries and powerful tannins.
Our 2022 Merlot reserve comes from Ried Hutweide, which lies in Teesdorf. We harvested it on 3 October 2022. Austria brought in noticeably more red wine that year: 788.600 hectolitres, up 8 %. It's a bright ruby, with ripe cherries and powerful tannins.
The batch: 2.000 litres. The Merlot reserve 2022 earned the state title at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2026 and gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards.
Awards (7)
Salon Österreich Wein · Thermenregion Wine Awards · Lower Austria State Wine Awards
Salon Österreich Wein · Thermenregion Wine Awards · Lower Austria State Wine Awards
2026
- SalonweinSalon Österreich Wein
- Gold, 3rd placeThermenregion Wine Awards
- FinalistLower Austria State Wine Awards
2025
- Gold, 2nd placeThermenregion Wine Awards
- GoldLower Austria State Wine Awards
no year
- State winnerLower Austria State Wine Awards
- GoldThermenregion Wine Awards
Site
Ried Hutweide, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich
Ried Hutweide, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich
Ried Hutweide in Teesdorf. Batch 2022: 2.000 l.
Certificates
Values
Harvest 03.10.2022 · Ripeness at harvest 21 °KMW
Harvest 03.10.2022 · Ripeness at harvest 21 °KMW
- Origin
- Niederösterreich
- Harvest
- 03.10.2022
- Ripeness at harvest
- 21 °KMW
- Sulphur
- 32/69 mg/l (free / total)
- Energy value
- 335 kJ / 80 kcal per 100 ml
- Alcohol
- 13.8 % Vol.
- Residual sugar
- 1.0 g/l
- Acidity
- 6.1 g/l
- Inspection number
- N 20542/24
Shipping
Delivery within Austria: free from € 150.00 order value, below that € 14.90.
Delivery within Austria: free from € 150.00 order value, below that € 14.90.
- Delivery within Austria: free from € 150.00 order value, below that € 14.90.
- Delivery to Germany: currently paused, feel free to write to us at info@fruehwirth.bio.
- Packaging unit: Box of 6 (0.75 l) or box of 12 (0.375 l).
- Minimum order quantity: 6 bottles.
- Delivery routes: around ten per year to the west and south of Austria.
- Discount for collection in Teesdorf.
Winemaking · Reserve line
From the harvested grapes to the bottle.
From the harvested grapes to the bottle.
Downloads
Data sheet · Notice · Barcodes · Back label
Data sheet · Notice · Barcodes · Back label
- Data sheet A4 — as of 03.10.2026PDF ↓
- Official notice — Test no. N 20542/24Open PDF ↗
- 0.75 l bottle — EAN 9120082712255
Barcode ↓QR ↓Back label ↓ - 0.375 l bottle — EAN 9120082712200
Barcode ↓QR ↓Back label ↓
Ried Hutweide
The grapes for Merlot reserve 2022 grow in the Ried Hutweide vineyard in Teesdorf, on pure gravel that holds hardly any water and naturally has little humus. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.
The 2022 harvest
The must for Merlot reserve 2022 measured 21 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.
What the figures say
Merlot reserve 2022 has 13.8 % vol. alcohol, 1.0 g/l residual sugar and 6.1 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.
The sugar-free extract of Merlot reserve 2022 is 27.7 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 32 mg/l free and 69 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 335 kJ or 80 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20542/24 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.
The Reserve line
Merlot reserve 2022 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.
Other vintages
Besides 2022, there are also the 2021, 2023 and 2024 vintages of Merlot reserve. The overview lists vineyard, harvest and status.