Brut Rosé Reserve L16372/05/23 (d2025-05)

Bründlmayer keeps the freshest and lightest of its red grapes for rosé, and the Brut Rosé is where they become Sekt. There are three of them: Pinot Noir, Zweigelt and St. Laurent, the three pillars of the estate's red wines.

The fruit comes from chalky parcels, most of them on southeast-facing slopes, so the wine gets warmth as well as freshness. Picking runs from the first week of September into the second week of October. The grapes travel to the cellar in small cases and are pressed gently, and only the heart of the must goes into the Sekt.

Each variety is fermented on its own and goes through malolactic. Willi Bründlmayer's reason is that a slightly softer, warmer base wine sets up a tension with the freshness of the bubbles. When the cuvée is assembled, the more powerful Zweigelt lots are sent to the still rosé instead.

The second fermentation happens in bottle, the classic way, followed by 18 to 24 months on the yeast and riddling by hand on wooden racks. This lot went into bottle in May 2023 and was disgorged two years later, at the top of that window.

Austrian grapes, Champagne's method, and the disgorgement date on the back label to hold the house to its word.