HM Lang Riesling This Is Not A Love Song Steingutamphore 2018

HM Lang is an up-and-coming estate from the Kremstal, one of Austria’s most exciting white-wine regions. The vineyards benefit from the interplay of Pannonian warmth and cool Danube freshness, creating a long growing season and intense aromatic development. Soils of loess, gravel and calcareous sediments shape the wines with fine minerality and tension. Grüner Veltliner and Riesling are at the centre and show particular clarity, tautness and aromatic precision here. Red wines such as Zweigelt impress with freshness, elegance and fine-grained tannins. Careful handwork and gentle vinification result in characterful, balanced Kremstal wines with regional identity and great drinking pleasure.

Kremstal in Lower Austria combines the cool Danube climate with diverse soils of loess, conglomerate and primary rock – ideal for elegant, precise white wines. Grüner Veltliner, from juicy-peppery to powerful, and Riesling, crystal-clear and stony-mineral, take centre stage. Wide day-night temperature differences preserve freshness and aromatics, while sunny terrace sites bring ripeness and structure. Stylistically, the spectrum ranges from highly drinkable village wines to dense, long-lived single-vineyard wines with a clear terroir signature.