Winery Leo HillingerHill 1
Red wine
This wine is a blend of 2 varietals which are the Zweigelt and the Merlot.
This wine generally goes well with blue cheese, pork or beef.
The Hill 1 of the Winery Leo Hillinger is in the top 80 of wines of Burgenland.
Wine flavors and olphactive analysis
On the nose the Hill 1 of Winery Leo Hillinger in the region of Weinland often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or microbio and sometimes also flavors of oak, spices or red fruit.
Food and wine pairings with Hill 1
Pairings that work perfectly with Hill 1
Original food and wine pairings with Hill 1
The Hill 1 of Winery Leo Hillinger matches generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or pork such as recipes of meat and goat pie, sweet and sour braised leg of lamb or caramelized pork ribs.
Details and technical informations about Winery Leo Hillinger's Hill 1.
Discover the grape variety: Zweigelt
Intraspecific crossing between the saint laurent and the limberger realized in 1922 and in Austria by Fritz Zweigelt (1888/1964) who named it rotburger. Very well known in Austria, it can be found in most Eastern countries, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the United States, etc. In France, it is not very well known and yet this variety has interesting qualities when vinified as a single variety for both red and rosé wines. - Synonyms: rotburger, klosterneuburger, zweigelt blau, blauer-zweigelt in Germany, zweigeltrebe in Austria, Great Britain and the Czech Republic, blauer zwelgetrabe in Hungary, etc. (for all the synonyms of the grape varieties, click here !)
Last vintages of this wine
The best vintages of Hill 1 from Winery Leo Hillinger are 2007, 2006, 2011, 2010 and 2015.
Informations about the Winery Leo Hillinger
The Winery Leo Hillinger is one of of the world's greatest estates. It offers 67 wines for sale in the of Burgenland to come and discover on site or to buy online.
The wine region of Burgenland
Burgenland is a large wine-producing region on the eastern border of Austria. Despite the country's image as the producer of some of the world's finest white wines, Austria is also home to a thriving red wine culture: Burgenland, with its sunny, continental summers, is the country's key red wine region, with its wines based mainly on the Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt grape varieties. Sweet, botrytized wines are also a specialty of the region, particularly in the Terroir surrounding the Neusiedlersee lake. The region occupies a narrow strip of land that runs from the Danube River down to Steiermark in the South.
The wine region of Weinland
Weinviertel DAC – whose name translates as "wine quarter" – is an appellation in Niederösterreich (Lower Austria). It is by far the largest Districtus Austriae Controllatus wine region in Austria. It was also the first Austrian wine region to be given that title, in 2002, with a DAC Reserve designation added in 2009. The designation applies only to white wines from the Grüner Veltliner Grape variety.
The word of the wine: Guyot (pruning)
This is the most widespread pruning technique. It includes one or two long branches and allows the mechanization of a large number of vineyard operations.
