Rennersistas - Neusiedlersee Chardonnay 2015

As Amber Revolution approches its second stretch goal on Kickstarter, what better way to celebrate than by reviewing another orange wine? This time we're heading to Austria to revisit a producer already mentioned briefly on this site: The Rennersistas Chardonnay 2015.

I first encountered this wine blind, at a jovial drinking session in Dalston's Newcomer Wines, an Austrian wine specialist. Naturally, I thought that I was tasting an Austrian orange wine made using Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay, in the spirit of Weingut Werlitsch. So I was surprised to discover that the wine was 100% Chardonnay. I was even more surprised to find out that this was the first vintage made by sisters Susanne and Stefanie,

In 1988, the sisters' parents Birgit and Helmuth took over the 13-hectare estate in Gols, an Austrian town close to the border with Hungary. When it came to choosing careers, the sisters went their own ways. Elder sister Susanne studied Fashion and hat-making. The younger Stefanie initially…