Judith Beck
Judith Beck
AboutJudith Beck
Judith Beck took responsibility for the cellar at her family’s Gols estate in 2000, assumed the family business in 2004 and completed a new winery the following year. She and her partner Uli Leitner tend about twenty hectares around Gols in Burgenland, close to Lake Neusiedl’s eastern shore.
The vineyards are farmed organically and biodynamically. Saint Laurent, Pinot Noir and Blaufränkisch are central to the range, and cellar work includes spontaneous fermentation.
Judith Beck 2021 Beck Ink
Austrian Red
$36.99
Blackcurrant and plum appear with cherry, herbs and a nutty note. Bracing acidity accompanies a velvety texture. Zweigelt and St. Laurent are used in an eighty-to-twenty proportion. The grapes are harvested by hand and ferment spontaneously in stainless steel after roughly ten days of maceration. Maturation lasts eight months in used barriques. The wine is organic and carries twelve percent alcohol.
Judith Beck 2021 Blaufränkisch
Austrian Red
$37.99
Black fruit, ink and graphite sit in a firm profile with fine-grained tannins. The dry red also shows spice, soft texture, velvety tannins and lively acidity. Blaufränkisch undergoes three weeks of maceration and ages for ten months in used barrels. It is neither fined nor filtered, receives little sulphur at bottling and carries 12.5 percent alcohol.
Judith Beck 2017 Heideboden
Austrian Red
$46.99
Cherry, cassis and spice appear with ripe tannins and a juicy character. The blend contains Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt. The grapes are destemmed and macerated for eighteen days, while fermentation starts spontaneously. The wine completes malolactic fermentation and spends twelve months in used barriques. Bottling is unfiltered. The vines grow on sand and clay with limestone, under organic and biodynamic farming.