2013 Moric BlaufrÌ_nkisch Burgenland

This is Roland Velich‰۪s most basic blaufrÌ_nkisch, a textbook example of the variety in Burgenland. It tastes as if it has assimilated the warm sun in its juicy blue fruit as well as the cool mountain breezes in its tart berry acidity; it offers a sense of the surrounding forests in its spice, as well as the primary rock under the vines in its firm, dark minerality. It‰۪s entirely of a piece and of a place.