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anna-christina 2011

This premium blend, dedicated to the Netzl

daughters Annemarie and Christina, is

60 % Zweigelt - 20 % Merlot – 20 % Cabernet Sauvignon

Think Right Bank Bordeaux, but at half the price!

94 Points

Falstaff Wine Guide (Europe’s Premier Wine Guide)

“Dark ruby with violet reflections, delicate edge brightening. With fine exotic wood, spice-coated red berry confit, delicate cassis and licorice. Complex, juicy, sweet black berry fruit, well integrated tannins, shows good length, nice minerality on the finish, good future potential, blackberry confit on the finish.” Peter Moser

Also.....

Highest Rating of

3 Stars

from Dave McIntyre of the Washington Post 

NETZL    anna christina 2011

Carnuntum, Austria, $55

"A splurge, to be sure, but this is a lovely wine from one of my favorite producers of zweigelt, Austria’s most popular red grape. This stylish example is blended with cabernet sauvignon and merlot and achieves a velvety texture and deep flavors of blackberry and wild berries, leading to a finish that doesn’t want to quit. It is not widely available, but consider this a winery endorsement and look for Netzl’s other fine reds."

 Regular Price:

$54.99

  Special Private Sale Price 

Tonight Only 
  
$43.00a bottle 

6 or more bottles  $40.00

We are so excited to see Christina again! Just last March I had the pleasure to visit with Franz and Christina to taste through the current vintages. They are one of the “Rock Star” wineries of the Carnuntum wine region and their skill shows in every glass.

I traveled with 10 other wine professionals and the consensus of the group was that the 2011 Anna-Christina was head and shoulders above all the other wines we sampled during our 8 day tour.

 Anna-Christina, this blend combines the juicy cherry fruit of the Zweigelt grape, the powerful structure and ripe tannins of the Cabernet Sauvignon and the smooth and velvety of the Merlot; ruby-garnet red with a dark core, dark and juicy berries and spicy nuances in the nose, complex, multi-layered, good tannins, elegance and charm with concentration.

For the Anna-Christina they use the best vineyard of every single variety. The Zweigelt comes from Haidacker, where it develops his typical very ripe, but also fresh cherry fruit. Merlot grows at Bärnreiser – a very warm place with deep soils and therefore constant ripening. Therefore the wines are deep, structured and full-bodied. Aubühel is the best place for Cabernet Sauvignon, because here the really gets ripe and brings ripe tannin and dark fruit to blend.

Highly ripe grapes were harvested at the end of September and beginning of October by hand and selected, fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks, the malolactic fermentation as well as the 20-month aging were made in new small French oak barrels.

Also open for your enjoyment…

NETZL Chardonnay  2011

The Chardonnay grapes love the perfect conditions of  “pannonian” climate with the deep and nutritious soils of the vineyard Haidacker. So they develop their very intensive and exotic aromatic with some nice acidity on the palate, due to the cooler influences of the river Danube during the nights.

Vinification: Harvested and selected by hand at the end of September, single-berry-selection in the cellar, fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks at about 20 °C to preserve a fresh and crispy style.

Lots of juice and spice in the nose, yellow apples, melons, nice acidity, fresh and animating.

About Carnuntum.........

The Carnuntum region, which covers an area south east of Vienna and south of the Danube, is a sub-region of Lower Austria. The Carnuntum has a long tradition of viticulture stretching back to Celtic times. It experienced an upswing under the Romans. At some point it was the occasional residence of Roman Caesars. The Carnuntum is rich in Roman remains, including an amphitheatre and a roman palace.

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