Red wine · Niederösterreich · Reserve line
Pinot noir reserve 2021
Deep ruby with violet highlights. Aromatic dark berries with subtle oak. Elegant, soft tannins and a long finish.
DAC TrophyThermenregion 2024
- Grape variety
- Pinot noir
- Vineyard site
- Hutweide, Teesdorf
- Alcohol
- 13.7 % Vol.
- Residual sugar
- 1.0 g/ldry
- Acidity
- 5.4 g/l
How it tastes
Sweetness1.0 g/l · dry
Body13.7 % Vol.
Acidity5.4 g/l
Vintage 2021
Our Pinot noir reserve comes from the Ried Hutweide vineyard in Teesdorf. We harvested it on 21 September 2021. Before that, a cool May had slowed the development of the vines.
Our Pinot noir reserve comes from the Ried Hutweide vineyard in Teesdorf. We harvested it on 21 September 2021. Before that, a cool May had slowed the development of the vines.
The colour is a deep ruby with a violet sheen, and aromatically dark berries come through with a touch of oak. Elegant on the palate, soft tannins, a long finish. We made 1.600 litres. At competitions the Pinot noir reserve 2021 collected gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2025 and 95 points at the Organic Wine Award International.
Awards (9)
Thermenregion Wine Awards · Lower Austria State Wine Awards · AWC Vienna · Organic Wine Award International · Falstaff
Thermenregion Wine Awards · Lower Austria State Wine Awards · AWC Vienna · Organic Wine Award International · Falstaff
2025
- Gold, 3rd placeThermenregion Wine Awards
2024
- DAC TrophyThermenregion
- Gold, 2nd placeThermenregion Wine Awards
- GoldLower Austria State Wine Awards
- SilverAWC Vienna
2023
- Top 100Thermenregion
no year
- GoldThermenregion Wine Awards
- 95 ptsOrganic Wine Award International
- 90 ptsFalstaff
Site
Ried Hutweide, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich
Ried Hutweide, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich
Ried Hutweide in Teesdorf. Batch 2021: 1.600 l.
Certificates
Values
Harvest 21.09.2021 · Ripeness at harvest 21 °KMW
Harvest 21.09.2021 · Ripeness at harvest 21 °KMW
- Origin
- Niederösterreich
- Harvest
- 21.09.2021
- Ripeness at harvest
- 21 °KMW
- Sulphur
- 29/57 mg/l (free / total)
- Energy value
- 331 kJ / 80 kcal per 100 ml
- Alcohol
- 13.7 % Vol.
- Residual sugar
- 1.0 g/l
- Acidity
- 5.4 g/l
- Inspection number
- N 20855/23
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 17.10.2026PDF ↓
- Official notice — Test no. N 20855/23Open PDF ↗
- 0.75 l bottle — EAN 9120082711869
Barcode ↓QR ↓Back label ↓ - 0.375 l bottle — EAN 9120082711890
Barcode ↓QR ↓Back label ↓ - Case of 6 (0.75 l) — EAN 9120082712781
Barcode ↓QR ↓
Ried Hutweide
The grapes for Pinot noir reserve 2021 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 2021 harvest
The must for Pinot noir reserve 2021 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
Pinot noir reserve 2021 has 13.7 % vol. alcohol, 1.0 g/l residual sugar and 5.4 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 Pinot noir reserve 2021 is 27.9 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 29 mg/l free and 57 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 331 kJ or 80 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20855/23 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.
The Reserve line
Pinot noir reserve 2021 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 2021, there are also the 2022, 2023 and 2024 vintages of Pinot noir reserve. The overview lists vineyard, harvest and status.