2020 Wetzer Kékfrankos Spern Steiner
Sopron, Hungary
2020
100% Kékfrankos
Sub-Alpine
Schist, quartz and gneiss
Fermented and aged in Hungarian 500L
12.9%
3.7 g/l
6.4 g/l
Notes & Pairings
Spern Steiner is a 60+ year-old vineyard that is an extreme place to grow because it’s both eastern facing (towards the lake and reed zone) and devoid of most nutrients. Chock full of schist, quartz and gneiss, Peter considers this a Grand Cru because the extremes balance one another out. This is much cooler, has the longest growing season (often picked weeks later than anything else), and it needs it. The fruit here is ripe due to high soil heat retention, acidity is miraculously high, and the 3 weeks of maceration includes a small percentage of stems to add some needed aromatics and bitterness. This is crunchy and concentrated Kékfrankos. Fermented and aged in Hungarian 500L, it’s bottled unfined, unfiltered and with a modicum of sulfur.
