2023 Ried Ulm Nussberg Wiener Gemischter Satz, Wieninger

• Style: Mineral-driven field blend, lemon-bright and full-bodied
• Taste: Stone fruit, salinity, herbaceous snap with flinty acidity
• Food: Oysters, white fish, asparagus, creamy cheeses, shellfish
• Occasion: Sunday lunch, date night, aperitivo
• Serve: Chilled, 13.5% ABV, dry with Vinolok cork

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

Vienna in a glass: four white varieties fermented together as they've grown side by side for generations. Lemon-bright, mineral-driven, full-bodied without heaviness, this blend rewards slow sipping. Pinot Blanc leads at 45%, bringing textural confidence and body without oak weight, while Neuburger contributes breadth, Grüner Veltliner adds herbaceous snap, and Welschriesling delivers mineral tension. At 13.5% alcohol and bone-dry, the flinty acidity matches the minerality, keeping every sip alive and curious.

The Winery — Wieninger

Fritz Wieninger is Vienna's modern guardian of an almost-extinct practice, pioneering the "New Vienna" movement by blending contemporary vision with regional heritage. His family has farmed the Nussberg's southern face for over a century; the Ulm site sits metres from the Danube, where ancient coral-reef limestone runs through biodynamically tended soils. From 2011 onward, Fritz reimagined the vineyard through an organic and biodynamic lens. The 2023 vintage arrived concentrated and clean after an unusually early harvest and perfect ripening September. Each variety is hand-picked, combined after four-hour skin contact, then aged on fine lees for ten months before bottling under a Vinolok cork. The result tastes neither laboured nor rustic—it tastes alive, place-specific, and built for the table.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

This is a wine that demands good food. Oysters, white fish with butter sauce, asparagus, and creamy cheeses all find a partner in the wine's salinity and stone-fruit backbone. The gemischter Satz format—Vienna's protected designation for field blends—offers something impossible to replicate as a single varietal: a conversation between grapes, terroir, and time. If you're drawn to Pinot Blanc & Pinot Bianco elsewhere in our selection, you'll recognize that same textural gift here. Explore more of our Austrian whites, or come back to this one with oysters on the half-shell for a Sunday lunch, date night, or sophisticated aperitivo.