The Winery Sax of Niederösterreich of Weinland

Winery Sax - Zweigelt Barrique
The winery offers 24 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 1136 of the estates of Weinland.
It is located in Niederösterreich in the region of Weinland

The Winery Sax is one of the best wineries to follow in Niederösterreich.. It offers 24 wines for sale in of Niederösterreich to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Sax wines

Looking for the best Winery Sax wines in Niederösterreich among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Sax wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Sax wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Sax

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Sax

How Winery Sax wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of delicious bourguignon, lamb with coconut milk or duck breast and roasted peaches.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Sax

  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Sax.

  • Zweigelt

Discovering the wine region of Niederösterreich

Niederösterreich, or Lower Austria, is a wine region in the Northeast of Austria bordering Slovakia and the Czech Republic. It is the country's largest wine region, both geographically and in terms of production. There are around 28,000 hectares (69,000 acres) of vineyards. These are responsible for roughly half of Austria's total wine output.

Niederösterreich includes eight of Austria's 16 official wine regions, each contributing to its wide variety of wine styles and types. A variety of different Grape varieties are grown in the region, but Grüner Veltliner and Riesling dominate. Pinot Noir and Sankt-Laurent, are all planted throughout the region, making wines of high quality, despite being excluded from the DAC classifications. Five official Districtus Austriae Controllatus (DAC) wines can be found here.

Wines made in these zones from grapes other than those specified are labelled as Niederösterreich. - Carnuntum: White wine from Chardonnay, Weissburgunder or Grüner Veltliner. Red wine from Blaufränkisch or Zweigelt - Kamptal, Kremstal, Traisental: White wines from Grüner Veltliner or Riesling - Weinviertel: Grüner Veltliner only The highly regarded region of Wachau also Lies within Niederösterreich, and is home to many of the country's top wine estates. It has its own classification system, carrying Steinfeder, Federspiel or Smaragd labels.

The top white wines of Winery Sax

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Sax

How Winery Sax wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, vegetarian or poultry such as recipes of wild boar stew, vegan leek and tofu quiche or pumpkin and bacon pie.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Sax

On the nose the white wine of Winery Sax. often reveals types of flavors of earth, tree fruit or spices and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, vegetal or tropical fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Sax. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Sax

  • 2011With an average score of 3.91/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.80/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 2014With an average score of 3.70/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.69/5
  • 2013With an average score of 3.66/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Sax.

  • Grüner Veltliner
  • Riesling
  • Chardonnay
  • Fruhroter Veltliner
  • Gelber Muskateller
  • Rivaner

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Sax

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Sax

How Winery Sax wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of braised lamb with peppers, rabbit socks in gibelotte or buckwheat cake à la bretonne.

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Sax.

  • Zweigelt

The word of the wine: Musky

Characteristic of the musk smell.

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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 !)

News about Winery Sax and wines from the region

Gigondas, Vacqueyras & Beaumes de Venise 2020: report and top-scoring wines

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The word of the wine: Musky

Characteristic of the musk smell.

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