Christian Tschida Birdscape White 2020
Burgenland // Austria
Tschida's wines are some of the most lightly-handled and evocative out of all of Central Europe's new generation of natural winemakers. Tschida is always pushing his farming and vineyards to greater and greater clarity and rigor; his harvests, pressing, and fermentation processes even more so, even if this means being intensely "hands-off."
Birdscape is a blend of Gruner Veltliner and white grapes, all of which are are hand-picked. The Gruner gets a short maceration, gently pressed and then blended with directly-pressed white field blend. Aged in large wooden vats for about a year. Bottled unfined and unfiltered, zero sulfur added. Pure, pretty, and meditative—you'll also drink these birds quick as can be.