Edgar Brutler
2023 Wieso? Nicht!
- Producer
- Edgar Brutler
- Appellation
- Crișana, Romania
- Vintage
- 2023
- Composition
- Field Blend red & white
- Climate
- Continental (hot summers & cold winters)
- Soils
- Clay, loam
- Maceration & aging
- Co-fermented in open vats for two days then pressed and aged in 500L and 225L oak barrels
- Alcohol
- 12%
- Residual sugar
- 0.5 g/l
- Acidity
- 5.64 g/l
Notes & Pairings
This is a field blend from a 40+ year-old site consisting mostly of Blaufränkisch, Portugieser, Welschriesling, Fetească Regală, and a little floater of Merlot and a few yet to be identified grapes. Everything was destemmed and then co-fermented in open vats for two days. Pressed and aged in 500L and 225L oak barrels, it was bottled unfiltered with around 10 ppm of SO2. While it’s certainly in the chilled red/Siller category, it has enough grip and ripeness to satisfy a red wine drinker with the acidity and aromatics to please a white wine drinker as well. Wieso?Nicht! (Why?Not!) just combine all this old vine goodness together like Edgar’s grandfather did in the first place.