The Winery Michael Opitz is one of the best wineries to follow in Burgenland.. It offers 43 wines for sale in of Burgenland to come and discover on site or to buy online.
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How Winery Michael Opitz wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) such as recipes of thomas's shoulder of lamb, roast pork with milk or skate with capers.
On the nose the red wine of Winery Michael Opitz. often reveals types of flavors of oak, red fruit or black fruit. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Michael Opitz. is a powerful with a nice balance between acidity and tannins.
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.
On its eastern side is the border with Hungary, and to the west Lies the most eastern foothills of the Alps. Steiermark aside, Burgenland is one of Austria's southernmost wine regions, and topographically is more aligned with Hungary than with much of the rest of Austria.
Burgenland is home to four DAC appellations: from North to south; Neusiedlersee, Leithaberg, Mittelburgenland and Eisenberg. Within each of these zones, any wines which do not conform to the particular classification are labeled with the Burgenland appellation
Burgenland's Lake Neusiedl (Neusiedlersee) is one of the viticultural focus points of the region.
It stores summer heat from the Pannonian Plain, an expansive, Warm area which covers much of Hungary and eastern Austria, effectively lengthening the ripening season into autumn. Humidity from the lake promotes the spread of noble rot (Botrytis cinerea) in the regions of Seewinkel and Rust.
The Ausbruch, Beerenauslese and Trockenbeerenauslese wines that are made near the lake are among the finest and most sought-after in the world. However the Neusiedlersee DAC applies to red wines based on the Zweigelt grape variety.
How Winery Michael Opitz wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of veal, pork or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of rabbit with hunter's sauce, currywurst or aiguillette of duck normandy style.
How Winery Michael Opitz wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of rich fish (salmon, tuna etc), shellfish or vegetarian such as recipes of croque-monsieur with tuna, cantonese rice or quiche with bacon and gruyère cheese.
On the nose the white wine of Winery Michael Opitz. often reveals types of flavors of oak, earth or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Michael Opitz. is a with a nice freshness.
A taste considered a defect, characterized by an unpleasant astringency and bitterness, brought by the stalk during the vinification process. In order to avoid it, destemming before vinification is a common practice.
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