2022 Tscheppe, Blue Dragonfly Plus (Sauvignon Blanc), Styria, Austria

$78.00

During the harvest of 2021, a tempest with heavy rain and a significant temperature drop came when the wines were fermenting in Andreas’s new cellar which wasn’t completely finished back then. As a result, the fermentation stopped its usual pace and became very slow instead. As a solution, Andreas bottled the wine with the remaining residual sugar under crown caps, to let them finish the fermentation in the bottle and develop a bit of fizz. To distinguish this “cellar calamity edition” from the “regular” Blue Dragonfly cuvée made in other vintages, the word “plus” is stated on the back label. 

Age of Vines: 10+ years

Soil: limestone/opok. Estate-owned, farmed organically by Andreas himself

Varieties: Sauvignon Blanc

Vinification Method: Grapes are hand harvested and destemmed. The grapes are pressed to 300-2000 liter 2-15 year old barrels where they ferment spontaneously. As the fermentation stopped due to weather damage and severe temperature drop in the cellar, the wine was finally bottled in March 2023 with the remaining RS under crown cap, to finish the fermentation there. Unfined and unfiltered, 5ppm sulfur added at bottling.

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