Fuchs und Hase volume III 2020: This boutique winery produces exclusively pétillant naturel from cool climate vineyard sites of the neighboring villages of Langenlois and Strass in the region of Kamptal - fermented with native yeasts, no addings, unfiltered - a pure and handcrafted expression of Austrian pét-nat. 

Weingut Fuchs Und Hase is an independent winery founded in 2014 by Stefanie and Alwin Jurtschitsch and Martin and Anna Arndorfer producing exclusively pet-nat wines. After learning about pet nat in other countries (none was made in Austria at the time), Martin and Alwin decided that they wanted to try to make some together. They went and shared their idea with their wives, and it turned out that Stefanie had already made one,two years earlier, as an experiment! She wanted to make a wine without any additions at all.

This micro scale project harvests fruit from about 3 hectares only and shows terrific terroir as a result. Each family contributes fruit from roughly 1.5 hectares, organically grown at altitude near the woods and in sites that promote high acidity and savory elegant structure or in their idiom: "where the fox and hare say goodnight" referring to a remote place surrounded by forest, thus the name, the Fox and Hare, or Fuchs und Hase. 

Every wine of the 3-7 cuvees they produce annually is a co-fermentation with different grapes and different levels of skin contact. Each cuvee is numbered by "Volume" and the higher the "Volume“ the more skin fermentation was used. All wines are fermented with native yeasts, without any additives, and bottled unfiltered - a pure and handcrafted expression of Austrian petillant naturel. 

Lots of citrus fruits and white flowers on the nose, close your eyes and for a moment you are in Sorrento, and the Passion Fruit is also noticeable.

The wines are fresh and savory, each expressing the variety in the bottle and the crisp, Kamptal fruit. Production is limited and in 2020 topped out at about 1.5k cases or 18k bottles. So enjoy this unique luxurious and exciting experience that you will share with less than 20,000 of your fellow oenophiles!