A wine to fall in love with? – Diepresse.com

Lightweight and increasingly cool red wines correspond to the healthy zeitgeist of our enjoyment society. If these wines are also pink, it is trendy: Rosé has been in – as a sparkling wine, as a still wine or just as a aperor spray. The blue Wildbacher Vulgo Schilcher meets all of these requirements – cool, pink, light. But then the Schilcher still has its « idiosyncrasies » or « special features », for which you love or completely reject this independent, autochthonian Styrian grape variety. There is usually no understanding of the in between.

However, what makes this Schilcher so formative and taste – in both directions of sensation? Blauer Wildbacher is a robust, spicy wine and has one, say, we say, « appetizing acid structure » or angular, « razor -sharp acid expression », which is mostly higher than with most other grape varieties. The Schilcher also has a very concentrated red -berry fruit charm in the fragrance and taste. Schilcher smells and tastes extremely aromatic of ribids, forest berries and currants – and that is simply « Too Much ». But for the other half it is exactly right, distinctive and seductive.

The figurehead of Styria

Styria has around 5100 hectares of vineyards. Around 550 hectares of it are planted with the blue wildlacher, which makes the Schilcher about ten percent – and the red flagship of Styria is. For West Styria, where the Schilcher is at home, the grape variety accounts for two thirds of the 667 hectares of wine. Therefore, West Styria has always been considered the Schilcherland. The blue torrent owes its synonym to the shimmer of its color with many shades – from the pale onion shell red to ruby ​​red.

Schilcher is a rosé wine from the Blauen-Wildbacher vine-and since 1976 Schilcher has also been a legally protected term in Styria. The Schilcher enjoys a small special position in the Styrian origin pyramid. While the Styrian DAC area wines are allowed to go on sale at the earliest on March 1 of the following year and the DAC local wines and Rieden wines only from May 1st, Schilcher area, local and town-free wines may be on the market from February 1st.

« West Styria has always been considered the Schilcherland because the Schilcher takes two thirds of the wine area there. »

There are four local wines in Schilcherland, from north to south: Ligist, Stainz, Deutschlandsberg and Eibiswald. « Die Presse » has already tasted some of the young, just published 2024 shilists-and a handful of recommendations, see above.

Although the Schilcher is considered a rosé wine, and thus as a young, rather quick -drinking summer wine with an alcohol content of 11.5 to 12.5 volume process, Schilcher – despite the low alcohol content – are, due to its mostly high acid and fine ozzworms, stored wines that have hardly losing fruit and freshness over the years. You only have to dare to cost yourself once, Schilcher local wines and layouts with three to five years of bottle. You will be pleasantly surprised.