Emil Bauer Roter Veltliner offers a complex flavour with notes of minerality, spices, and a wide range of fresh herbs and ripe stone fruits. This elegant wine is a strong accompaniment to white meats and seafood but also works splendidly as an aperitif.

Complex flavour, minerality, elegant, spicy, complex fruits, wide aroma spectrum ranging from fresh herbs to ripe stone fruits. Strong accompaniment to food such as white meats and seafood.

About the Producer

In its fifth generation of family ownership, the Bauer winery dates back to 1840 in the sleepy little village of Ottenthal, just north of the River Danube and less than one hour north- west of Vienna. This region is a wine making mecca, with an abundance of fertile, lush soil, nutrient rich rock beds and wild berry shrubs and nut trees lining many a field. Emil Bauer practises sustainable winemaking with 14ha under vine.

Matthias Bauer succeeded his father as owner and winemaker in 2018, since when he has uprooted international varieties like Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah and planted Grüner and Roter Veltiner, demonstrating his commitment to the authentic wines of Austria. He honed his skills working in New Zealand at Villa Maria, Weingut Lind in the Pfalz and Weingut Kollwentz and is now one of the best winemakers in Austria. His wines are expressive of the region and his skills.

Vineyard and Winery

This Roter Veltliner thrives around Ried Marienbergand Steinthal. These grapevines grow on rich Loess soil, a very fertile soil type, the products from vines planted on loess soil invariably have a fine minerality. This minerality combined with the ripeness of fruit that results from this optimal location, is a great starting point for excellent wines. Roter Veltliner is described as the Diva of the white wines, wanting to be looked after and taken care of.

The grape bunches are destemmed upon arrival at the winery and then spend 12 hours of maceration on the skins followed by a gentle pressing. After this spontaneous  fermentation creates the wine with 90% of this maturing in stainless steel and the remaining  10% adds character from time spend in small oak barrels.