Temento Sweet
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Blue cheeses such as Roquefort, fruit-based desserts like apricot tart, and spicy Asian cuisine featuring chili and lemongrass.
✨ Technical Specifications
Cultivated on steep, biodynamically farmed slopes composed primarily of limestone marl and gravel, this sweet cuvée represents a harmonious blend typically led by aromatic varieties like Sauvignon Blanc and Welschriesling. Fermentation is arrested naturally by cooling to preserve vibrant residual sweetness, balanced by regional tension, before resting in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks to maintain purity of fruit and crisp floral aromatics.
🍾 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
Gelber Muskateller, Sauvignon Blanc
🍷 ABV
10.0% - 11.5%