Setzer Weinviertel Zweigelt 2022 CS20230828 A benchmark from a quiet

A benchmark from a quiet legend

this is Pinotage worth reconsidering

This wine was created with the intent to obtain a product having the traditional features of the Lambrusco of former days

and only a trickle makes it to the West Coast

but it is not a simple one

Setzer Weinviertel Zweigelt 2022 CS20230828 A benchmark from a quietZweigelt is Austria's most planted red grape and one of the great under the radar pleasures in wine: a 20th century crossing of Blaufrnkisch and St. Laurent that gives dark, juicy fruit with almost no tannic weight. Setzer's comes from Hohenwarth in the Weinviertel, where the family has farmed since 1705 and where sandy, limestone rich soils keep the wine lifted instead of heavy. Put a light chill on it and it becomes one of the most useful bottles