Description

Heinrich Muscat Freyheit is an orange wine coupage of the Chardonnay, Muskat Ottonel and Weissburgunder (Pinot Blanc) varieties produced by Weingut Heinrich in Burgenland, Austria. This Heinrich Muscat Freyheit wine is made using grapes that grow in vineyards on the eastern slopes of the Leitha mountains. The soils are predominantly composed of calcareous sandstone and mica schist, and the grapes grow in sandy loam soils and gravel on the south-facing escarpment on the Parndorf plateau. The bunches are picked by hand from the end of August to the beginning of September and fermented with their native yeasts. The must macerates with its skins for fourteen days. There is then a gentle pressing in a basket. The resulting wine undergoes malolactic fermentation and ages in used oak barrels for 8 months with its own lees. It is bottled without filtering or adding sulphites.