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Zweigelt reserve 2020
Gold, 2nd placeThermenregion Wine Awards 2022
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€ 19.20€ 25.60 / litre
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- Grape variety
- Zweigelt
- Alcohol
- 13.2 % Vol.
- Residual sugar
- 1.0 g/ldry
- Acidity
- 5.3 g/l
How it tastes
Sweetness1.0 g/l · dry
Body13.2 % Vol.
Acidity5.3 g/l
Vintage 2020
The Zweigelt reserve 2020 is no longer available, not a bottle of the 1.600 litres is left. At harvest the grapes brought 20 °KMW. Before the harvest, high sugar levels with enough acidity had been forecast for Austria, along with fruity, harmonious wines.
The Zweigelt reserve 2020 is no longer available, not a bottle of the 1.600 litres is left. At harvest the grapes brought 20 °KMW. Before the harvest, high sugar levels with enough acidity had been forecast for Austria, along with fruity, harmonious wines.
The Zweigelt reserve 2020 earned gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards and silver at AWC Vienna 2022.
Awards (4)
Thermenregion Wine Awards · Lower Austria State Wine Awards · AWC Vienna
Thermenregion Wine Awards · Lower Austria State Wine Awards · AWC Vienna
2023
- Gold, 5th placeThermenregion Wine Awards
2022
- Gold, 2nd placeThermenregion Wine Awards
- GoldLower Austria State Wine Awards
- SilverAWC Vienna
Certificates
Values
Ripeness at harvest 20 °KMW
Ripeness at harvest 20 °KMW
- Origin
- Niederösterreich
- Ripeness at harvest
- 20 °KMW
- Sulphur
- 46/64 mg/l (free / total)
- Alcohol
- 13.2 % Vol.
- Residual sugar
- 1.0 g/l
- Acidity
- 5.3 g/l
- Inspection number
- N 14447/22
Winemaking · Reserve line
From the harvested grapes to the bottle.
From the harvested grapes to the bottle.
The 2020 harvest
The must for Zweigelt reserve 2020 measured 20 °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
Zweigelt reserve 2020 has 13.2 % vol. alcohol, 1.0 g/l residual sugar and 5.3 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 Zweigelt reserve 2020 is 25.1 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 46 mg/l free and 64 mg/l total sulphur. It received the official inspection number N 14447/22 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.
The Reserve line
Zweigelt reserve 2020 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 2020, there are also the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 vintages of Zweigelt reserve. The overview lists vineyard, harvest and status.