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NATURAL WINES BY KARL AND EVA SCHNABEL
Karl and Eva Schnabel farm about 5 hectares of very steep slopes on the Sausal, the hill country near Gleinstätten in South Styria, Austria. It all began with a roadside inn opened by Karl's grandfather. Karl spent 1997 and 1998 in Burgundy, and from 1998 the couple replanted their Hochegg, Koregg and Kreuzegg parcels, mostly with red grapes in a region known for whites. The Sausal is older than the Alps, and its soils are weathered schist, silica and quartz with no limestone or clay.
They farm holistically, with homemade plant teas and rows scythed by hand. The grapes ferment on their skins in open vats, then rest in old oak for a year or more and are bottled by hand with no added sulphur. Blaufränkisch, Pinot Noir and Zweigelt lead the range. We have the Pinot Noir Hochegg 2023 and the skin-fermented Legionar 2021, a Sauvignon Blanc.
