SteiermarkCabernet Sauvignon Reserve 2018

A great wine with a great future. My berries are small and deep black at the centre. After an intimate fermentation, I have spent 30 months in small barrels. I am dense and opulent, beguiling and juicy, with a long persistence.

In the upper part of the vineyard from the castle in Maierhofbergen you have one of the most beautiful views in the region towards Riegersburg. The orientation of the vineyard, located at around 350 m above sea level, is towards the west with a slight slope to the south; the slope starts at around 30% in the upper area and becomes flatter towards the lower part of the vineyard. The soil is largely characterized by basalt gravel. Here you are in the gravel of the East Styrian Basin, which consists of sediments from the mountains to the north that were washed here by erosion around 5 million years ago in the shallowing ancient sea. The diversity of the gravel can be explained by the diversity of the alluvial rubble material in the mountains to the north of THALLER. In the lower part of the location you can find more Opok. The age of the vines is up to 35 years

With 18 days of maceration, our Cabernet Sauvignon has a lot of contact with the berry skin and seeds. The wine is then stored in small wooden barrels for 36 months. When storing wooden barrels, we work with a lot of used barrels. Then bottle matured for 1 year and then sold.