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The Müenzenrieder estate lies in the Neusiedlersee Seewinkel National Park in the eastern reaches of Austria, near the market town of Apetlon. This is an area dotted with lakes, salt marshes and wide open plains. Through natural cultivation methods, rigorous sorting of fruit at harvest time and great care in the cellar, winegrowing brothers, Johann and Johannes Müenzenrieder produce wines which have real varietal character. Sämling is also known as Scheurebe an early ripening, Germanic variety that makes innocuous dry white wines, but it piles on the sugars in the autumn and when affected by noble rot, produces wines of great sweetness and distinction. Sämling retains some of its part Riesling origins and this straw coloured, shrivel berried dessert wine is defined by fresh acidity with tropical fruits and the intense sweetness of raisins and honey. Cold fermented in steel, and aged for 10 months in steel. No oak.
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