2022 Edgar Brutler Gisela

Notes & Pairings

This might be the longest write up for a wine we will only have a few cases of, but it anecdotally sums so much up about this family. In short, this wine is dedicated to a chicken. The Brutler family keeps many chickens, but this one was routinely attacked by the others. Perhaps they were jealous of her sweet character. In any case Edgar’s mother took the chicken into the home with the dogs and she became a fixture next to his father in the garden and on a chair at the dining table. Sadly, she likely ate from the dog bowl, got sick and died prematurely. According to Edgar, “my Dad gets tears in his eyes when we speak about her.” On the wine front, all of the fruit comes from a site planted in the 1970s by his father’s family that was near death not too long ago. In 2019 they only got enough fruit for one 225L barrel. After years of compost, precise pruning and handwork, it’s now back to full strength and we are lucky enough to get some. The co-fermented field blend is mostly comprised of Fetească Regală, Grüner Veltliner, Italian Riesling, a few Muskatel, a block of Mustoasă de Măderat and some red grapes like Portugieser, Kadarka, and Blaufränkisch. Very similar to the Wieso?Nicht! in terms of red and white grapes, but where the latter goes ultimately in a red wine direction, the Gisela is more of a Rosé. Everything was crushed with stems, pressed, and then fermented and aged in one 500L and another 300L oak barrel.

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