Brutal Gut Oggau 2020

Brutal Gut Oggau, biodynamic wine, 100% Roesler, rare grape, pink pulp and deep red skins, this wine is not Rose but also not red, unique, intriguing, intelligent but loads of fun, tiny amounts available and you will want to buy more. Brutal is only made in those rare vintages when the Roesler, a relatively unknown autocthonous Austrian variety, reaches full ripeness and there is not enough quantity of good quality Blaufrankisch with which to make the delicious Josephine wine. Roesler is a crossing of Zweigelt, Seyve-Villard 18-402 and Blaufränkisch and is named after the former director of Austria’s oldest viticultural college, Leonard Roesler. It has a lot of colour, tannins and extract but this wine is made with virtually no skin contact and so produces a subtle yet energetic light red which captures Roesler’s wild berry aromas but leaves its heavy tannins and colour in the vat. A stunning drop of classy natural wine from one the most exciting wineries we know. Gut Oggau’s wines always leave you wanting more.

Gut Oggau is a 14 hectare Austrian wine estate located in the province of Burgenland by the Lake Neusiedl.

The estate is run by Eduard Tscheppe and his wife Stephanie, daughter of a 2 Michelin star restaurant owner. It is a certified biodynamic estate with each wine coming from a single plot of vines with different terroirs showing different expressions in the wine. The individual personalities of the wine are expressed in the faces on the labels created by Jung von Matt (German designer) and brought together in the Gut Oggau family tree. A unique and fascinating way of describing the wines, they taste every bit as intriguing as the labels suggest.