Josef Fischer 2024 Gruner Veltliner Federspiel, Wachau

Item Number: 23210

UPC: 9-120061312490

Country: Austria
Region: Lower Austria
Sub Region: Wachau
Appellation/AVA: Wachau
Estate Grown Wine: Yes
Vintage: 2024
Grape(s): 100% Grüner Veltliner
Type: Wine - White
Bottle Size: 750 ml
Pack: 12
Closure: Screw Cap
Viticulture: Certified Organic

Terroir: Fischer's gleaming, penetratingly mineral Wachau-designated Grüner Veltliner Federspiel comes from three parcels along the Danube's southern banks, whose north-facing slopes produce wines of scintillating acidity and laser-like precision.

Winemaking: This wine spends eight months on its lees in stainless steel following a spontaneous fermentation, and malolactic fermentation is never blocked (and occasionally takes place).

Farming: Only a small percentage of Wachau winegrowers work organically, due to the immense amount of manual labor required to farm on the region’s terraces. Josef Fischer, however, works completely without synthetic chemicals in his beautifully tended vineyards, and the winery is certified organic. He inherited this deep respect for sustainability from his father, who, in a true instance of living up to one’s surname, has been engaged in a decades-long passion project of breeding the fabled but near-extinct Huchen—the royal fish of the Habsburgs—and repopulating the river with them.