A fiery Roter Traminer from Tauss

I've featured wines from several of the Schmecke das Leben producers in this series, but not Tauss until now. Roland and Alice Tauss are perhaps the least well known winery in the group, partly due to their very small size - there's a mere 6 hectares of v

Every week, I select an orange wine (a white wine made with extended skin contact) that grabbed my attention. View the whole series here.

I've featured wines from several of the Schmecke das Leben producers in this series, but not Tauss until now. Roland and Alice Tauss are perhaps the least well known winery in the group, partly due to their very small size - there's a mere 6 hectares of vines at their bucolic estate in Southern Styria.

Like their colleagues, this quiet, philosophical couple underwent a conversion, first to organic farming and then to biodynamics. The estate has been Demeter-certified since 2006. When you visit, it's clear this is no tokenistic marketing exercise. A yoga studio, solar heated pool, and accomodation furnished with natural, ecologically friendly materials are all clues that the Tauss way of life is about tranquility and a light footprint on the planet.

A section on the Tauss website deals with "Representation of energies in our wines". I'll admit this tak…