2021 Joschuari

Blaufränkisch, macerated for three weeks then left to rest untouched, unsulfured, for twelve months. Deep, dark fruit that sits in the cup of your tongue. Garlanded with violets and vellichor. The perfume is rich and intoxicating, a flurry of blueberry, mulberry and violet, with fresh herbs and fine, crushed rock tannins. Not to objectify, but Joschauri is definitely the English teacher from seventh grade that you occasionally still think about. He’s also Mechtild and Bertholdi’s son, and the...Read More...

Blaufränkisch, macerated for three weeks then left to rest untouched, unsulfured, for twelve months. Deep, dark fruit that sits in the cup of your tongue. Garlanded with violets and vellichor. The perfume is rich and intoxicating, a flurry of blueberry, mulberry and violet, with fresh herbs and fine, crushed rock tannins. Not to objectify, but Joschauri is definitely the English teacher from seventh grade that you occasionally still think about. He’s also Mechtild and Bertholdi’s son, and the principal heir to Gut Oggau. Without a doubt, one of the more interesting and rare expressions of Austrian Blaufrankisch that makes it to Australian shores.

Gut Oggau came to life when Eduard and Stephanie Tscheppe took over an abandoned 17th century winery in the town of Oggau, Austria, and tirelessly restored it, including the 200 year old press that came with it. The neglect that had befallen the winery was bittersweet in some way as the dust was shaken off the bones of the buildings and land; they noticed that the chemical treatments used thirty years ago had washed away too. Biodynamics was the next necessary step for the couple. Once they were able to vinify, perhaps it was the ghosts of the winery past, spirits that had hidden in the walls and the fruit, but each wine came alive with it’s own personality. They say that natural wine feels “alive”, but the feeling was so encapsulating, they had to name the visions that came to them. Part of the joy of drinking Gut Oggau is the rich family history they’ve created, matching personalities and stories of people to wines shows how the pair have embraced the sense of community in drinking, but also there’s the guarantee you’re going to drink….well…gut. 

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