2013 Rosi Schuster Sankt Margarethen Blaufränkisch

The 2013 Sankt Margarethen Blaufränkisch is a great village wine from Austria’s Burgenland. Concentrated and fleshy, with white-pepper powder and black-olive flavors highlighting the perfectly ripe dark cherry, blackberry and cassis aromas on the nose, this is a round and full-bodied, pure, fresh and elegant wine with remarkable fine tannins. This is probably the Blaufränkisch where fruit wine drinkers and Nebbiolo fans could come together. The concentration here is enormous and so is the tannin and acidity, but also: how refined. The finish is pure, fresh and long and reveals a stimulating robustness with leather and tobacco flavors in the aftertaste. What purity, vitality, finesse and elegance!
94 Points. Stephen Reinhardt, Wine Advocate