Christoph Heiss Malinga Gruner Veltliner Austria Sekt Big Bottle dark cherry

dark cherry

The 2021 crop was minuscule

He now farms some 15 hectares organically

and a hillside steep enough that everything is worked by hand

it rests on Finger Lakes Valvin Muscat and Cayuga White fortified with brandy from Finger Lakes Distilling

Christoph Heiss Malinga Gruner Veltliner Austria Sekt Big Bottle dark cherryMalinga is Christoph Heiss's natural wine label, drawn from chosen parcels of his family's 12 hectares in Engabrunn, at the eastern edge of the Kamptal. After winemaking stints in New Zealand, Germany, and South Africa, Heiss came home to take over the family cellar, and Malinga is his freer register: organically farmed fruit, hand harvesting, spontaneous fermentation, and bottling unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur. Here that approach meets