Steinbach Gelber Muskateller
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
spicy Asian dishes, fresh goat cheese, light seafood appetizers
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the steep, wind-swept slopes of the Ried Steinbach vineyard in Gamlitz, this wine showcases the dramatic terroir of Southern Styria. The vineyard is characterized by its unique soil composition of weathered loess, gravel, and red sandy clay, which imparts a distinctive mineral tension to the grapes. Gelber Muskateller is one of the world's oldest cultivated grape varieties, historically prized by nobility for its intoxicating perfume. While often vinified sweet elsewhere, Weingut Tement crafts this as a bone-dry, highly sophisticated masterpiece. Utilizing biodynamic farming, spontaneous fermentation, and patient aging on the fine lees, they transform what is often a simple aromatic grape into a structured, deeply complex white wine that balances explosive floral notes with a tight, salty minerality.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 1959, Weingut Tement is a benchmark family-owned estate situated on the steep, dramatic hills of Südsteiermark along the Austrian-Slovenian border. Propelled to international renown under Manfred Tement and now steered by sons Armin and Stefan Tement, the winery practices certified biodynamic viticulture across mineral-rich limestone and coralline limestone soils. Renowned for their precision, longevity, and profound terroir expression, the estate specializes in world-class Sauvignon Blanc and Morillon (Chardonnay), with iconic single-vineyard bottlings hailing from top cru sites such as Ried Zieregg and Ried Grassnitzberg.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Gelber Muskateller
🍷 Alcohol By Volume (ABV)
11.5-12.5%