Temento Green
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Fresh goat cheese salad with herbs, grilled asparagus with lemon vinaigrette, Styrian fried chicken with pumpkin seed oil dressing.
✨ Technical Specifications
Cultivated across steep, biodynamically farmed vineyards rooted in weathered sandstone, gravelly limestone, and clay marl, this vibrant cuvée highlights the brisk, aromatic lift of southern Styria. Hand-harvested grapes undergo spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks. The wine rests briefly on fine lees prior to bottling, preserving an unadorned snap of green fruit, saline freshness, and herbal vitality without any wood influence.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1959 by Josef and Edina Tement, Weingut Tement rose to global acclaim under Manfred Tement, who transformed the family's modest holdings into an international benchmark for Austrian viticulture. Perched atop the rugged limestone ridge of Ried Zieregg along the border of Slovenia in Südsteiermark, the estate commands precipitous slopes composed of coralline limestone, marl, and schist. Today directed by Manfred alongside sons Armin and Stefan, the domaine converted fully to biodynamics, earning Demeter and respekt-BIODYN certifications. Cellar philosophy hinges on unhurried, low-intervention vinification, spontaneous native-yeast fermentations, neutral oak casks, and prolonged maturation on fine lees without fining or unnecessary filtration. The estate's benchmark bottlings—most notably Ried Zieregg Sauvignon Blanc, Ried Zieregg IZ Reserve, and site-driven expressions of Morillon and Weissburgunder—display tension, saline minerality, structural depth, and profound aging potential.
🍇 Grapes
Sauvignon Blanc, Welschriesling
🍷 ABV
11.5-12%