Tschida Himmel auf Erden rosé

My heritage is unknown, but schnook you know I am not. In any event, if you find yourself in a jurisdiction where Christian Tschida's wines are available, I think you'd be very happy at the result of seeking one out. His Gruner Veltliner "Non-Tradition" 2012 a few days ago was also revelatory. 12.5% abv, so like Federspiel in weight, but has smaragd depth of flavor and length. Just none of the heaviness or over concentration that one sometimes finds in young GV at the smaragd level.
 
We had dinner at The Loft last year (on the top floor of the Sofitel in Vienna) and the sommeliers served everything to our group blind. After much discussion by the geeks, one wine was deemed to be Allemand"s Sans Souffre Cornas (although one person thought it just had to be Herve Souhaut's St. Epine). At least we had the grape variety correct; it was indeed Syrah, but it was the 2009 Christian Tschida Felsenstein Syrah from magnum. Amazing purity, but pretty much unobtanium outside of Austria, and even then it's difficult to find because Tschida is very picky about where his wines are sold. I asked about US importation but he apparently has some concerns about US politics and foreign policy and has decided to sell his wines elsewhere.

-Eden (Jutta Ambrositch is the other unicorn winemaker I discovered on that trip but her wines show up at CSW occasionally so she's maybe not all that unicornish after all)
 
Passing a week in London ahead of a conference in Oxford, I noticed Tschida's rose on the list at Sager+Wilde in Shoreditch. A little digging revealed that I'm staying up the street from the retail outlet of his UK importer. I popped in tonight to pick up a couple of bottles and got to talking to Peter, one of the majordomos.

Anyways, his scuttlebutt was that a US importer is in the works, to the tune of "the same guy who imports Ganevat to New York." So, we may have that going for us. Which would be nice.

Oh, and the 2014 rose is fantastic. Hazy, seems a little looser at first than its Loire valley cousins, but tightens up nicely. Serious and very hard to put down.
 
originally posted by fillay:
BUMPPassing a week in London ahead of a conference in Oxford, I noticed Tschida's rose on the list at Sager+Wilde in Shoreditch. A little digging revealed that I'm staying up the street from the retail outlet of his UK importer. I popped in tonight to pick up a couple of bottles and got to talking to Peter, one of the majordomos.

Anyways, his scuttlebutt was that a US importer is in the works, to the tune of "the same guy who imports Ganevat to New York." So, we may have that going for us. Which would be nice.

Oh, and the 2014 rose is fantastic. Hazy, seems a little looser at first than its Loire valley cousins, but tightens up nicely. Serious and very hard to put down.
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I hope he brings in the Skin Fermented Scheurebe!
 
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