Region
Austria › Wien › Wein
Type
red · still
Grapes
Blaufrankisch, Pinot Noir
Alcohol
11%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
0.7 g/L
Tasting Notes(4)
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About
Christian Tschida's contribution to the BRUTAL!!! line. The badge originally launched 2010 in the Languedoc by Antony Tortul (La Sorga) with cofounders Joan Ramon Escoda, Laureano Serres, Axel Prüfer, and Rémi Poujol - 'brutal' here used in the colloquial Spanish/Catalan sense of 'excellent'. Originally a marker for wines made with no added sulphur and no filtration. After the badge was misused in the late 2010s, Tortul relaunched it in 2021 as 'La compagnie du vrai vin brutal', now restricted to vetted producers who work zero/zero across their full range and bottle one Brutal per harvest.
Brutal 2023 is approximately 50/50 Pinot Noir and Blaufränkisch - the Blaufränkisch joined the cuvée in 2023 from a neighbouring plot, where earlier vintages were Pinot-only. Old-vines Pinot from Tschida's Eisner site on Illmitz's lacustrine chalk. Spontaneous fermentation in a large neutral Stockinger barrel, no fining, no filtration, no added SO2. Around 11% ABV.
