Wine Region: Kamptal, Austria

Type: White Wine

Grape: Grüner Veltliner

Alcohol Content: 10.5%

Tasting Notes: A unique and unconventional white wine with complex flavors and an artisanal touch. 

About the Winery:

In traditional Japanese aesthetics, Wabi-sabi (侘寂) is a world view centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is „imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete“. It is a concept derived from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence (三法印 sanbōin), specifically impermanence (無常 mujō), suffering (苦 ku) and emptiness or absence of selfnature (空 kū). Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes. In today’s Japan, the meaning of wabi-sabi is often condensed to „wisdom in natural simplicity.“

In a wine, we may experience Wabi-Sabi in the moment, when we have a sense of the wine as a whole, not a succession of different components like tannin, acidity, sweetness etc. Wabi-Sabi can capture a complexity that we cannot easily express in words.