Numen Fumé Blanc

Johannes Zillinger

Johannes's NUMEN wines are his highest end and most awarded. This cuvée was even awarded 2020's Austrian wine of the year by Gault & Millau. 'Numen' denotes metaphysical activity and is an important concept in Zillinger's wines: These wines are almost without any intervention in the cellar. They are Zillinger's most natural and expressive and highly sought after. For these wines, Zillinger specially selects the best bunches of high-ripened grapes from their estate's oldest Sauvignon Blanc vines. After being de-stemmed, these precious grapes are fermented whole-berry in a cool earthen amphora for 18 months on the lees without intervention. The cool, slow, intracellular fermentation in the presence of skins and seeds but without any extractive cap management creates an extremely unique and delicious and dizzying wine. There is a textured density of phenolics quite unlike any Sauvignon Blanc you've had before. These wines are inspired by Zillinger's time spent studying ancient wine ways in Georgia. The Numen wines are truly bewitching dispatches from a brave vigneron.

Country:  Austria

Region:  Niederösterreich

Appellation:  Weinviertel

Climate:  Cool Continental

Altitude:  200-250m

Soils:  Loess and limestone/sandstone

Varietal/Blend:  100% Sauvignon Blanc

Fermentation:  Spontaneous destemmed whole-berry cool ferment with indigenous yeast for 16 months in amphorae.

Ageing:  16 months in terracotta qvevri amphorae. Unfined & unfiltered

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Lissen vineyard, 40+ years old, biodynamic, hand farmed.

ABV:  12.5%

Produced Cases:  208

CSPC:  850832

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Johannes Zillinger


Niederösterreich, Austria

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Numen Fumé Blanc
Johannes Zillinger
Johannes's NUMEN wines are his highest end and most awarded. This cuvée was even awarded 2020's Austrian wine of the year by Gault & Millau. 'Numen' denotes metaphysical activity and is an important concept in Zillinger's wines: These wines are almost without any intervention in the cellar. They are Zillinger's most natural and expressive and highly sought after. For these wines, Zillinger specially selects the best bunches of high-ripened grapes from their estate's oldest Sauvignon Blanc vines. After being de-stemmed, these precious grapes are fermented whole-berry in a cool earthen amphora for 18 months on the lees without intervention. The cool, slow, intracellular fermentation in the presence of skins and seeds but without any extractive cap management creates an extremely unique and delicious and dizzying wine. There is a textured density of phenolics quite unlike any Sauvignon Blanc you've had before. These wines are inspired by Zillinger's time spent studying ancient wine ways in Georgia. The Numen wines are truly bewitching dispatches from a brave vigneron.

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  Austria

Region:  Niederösterreich

Appellation:  Weinviertel

Climate:  Cool Continental

Altitude:  200-250m

Soils:  Loess and limestone/sandstone

Varietal/Blend:  100% Sauvignon Blanc

Fermentation:  Spontaneous destemmed whole-berry cool ferment with indigenous yeast for 16 months in amphorae.

Ageing:  16 months in terracotta qvevri amphorae. Unfined & unfiltered

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Lissen vineyard, 40+ years old, biodynamic, hand farmed.

ABV:  12.5%

Produced Cases:  208

CSPC:  850832

Andrew Stewart | Calgary + Alberta South

T: 403-604-0408 | E: andrew@vinoalvino.ca

Joe Gurba | Edmonton + Alberta North

 T: 780-203-5284 | E: joe@vinoalvino.ca

Numen Fumé Blanc
Johannes Zillinger
Johannes's NUMEN wines are his highest end and most awarded. This cuvée was even awarded 2020's Austrian wine of the year by Gault & Millau. 'Numen' denotes metaphysical activity and is an important concept in Zillinger's wines: These wines are almost without any intervention in the cellar. They are Zillinger's most natural and expressive and highly sought after. For these wines, Zillinger specially selects the best bunches of high-ripened grapes from their estate's oldest Sauvignon Blanc vines. After being de-stemmed, these precious grapes are fermented whole-berry in a cool earthen amphora for 18 months on the lees without intervention. The cool, slow, intracellular fermentation in the presence of skins and seeds but without any extractive cap management creates an extremely unique and delicious and dizzying wine. There is a textured density of phenolics quite unlike any Sauvignon Blanc you've had before. These wines are inspired by Zillinger's time spent studying ancient wine ways in Georgia. The Numen wines are truly bewitching dispatches from a brave vigneron.

TECHNICAL INFO

Country:  Austria

Region:  Niederösterreich

Appellation:  Weinviertel

Climate:  Cool Continental

Altitude:  200-250m

Soils:  Loess and limestone/sandstone

Varietal/Blend:  100% Sauvignon Blanc

Fermentation:  Spontaneous destemmed whole-berry cool ferment with indigenous yeast for 16 months in amphorae.

Ageing:  16 months in terracotta qvevri amphorae. Unfined & unfiltered

Vineyard & Vine Age:  Lissen vineyard, 40+ years old, biodynamic, hand farmed.

ABV:  12.5%

Produced Cases:  208

CSPC:  850832

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403-604-0408

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