{"title":"Producer Weingut Kögl","description":"\u003cp\u003eSouth Styria's steepest hillsides don't care much for five-year plans. Above Ratsch an der Weinstraße, the limestone-marl slopes of the Stermetzberg climb so sharply that no machine can reach them — everything here is done by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is where Tamara Kögl grew up, on her parents' mixed farm, with no intention of taking it over. The vineyard had other ideas. She became cellar master in 2010, converted to organic in 2013 — no small task in Styria's humid climate — and by 2020 had gone fully biodynamic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer turning point came after tasting a Pét-Nat made by a fellow Austrian winemaker. She realised she could never make traditional sparkling wine without sending the base wine off-site for dosage — but Pét-Nat lets every step stay on the farm. Seven years later, her Pét-Nats — worked by feel, vintage by vintage — are what the winery is known for: elegant, high-pressure, gently cloudy with yeast, alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's this same limestone-marl soil, locally called Kalkmergel, that gives Kögl's still wines their signature tension and salinity — a mineral backbone underneath fruit that's never allowed to run soft.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"forever-young-pet-nat","title":"FOREVER YOUNG PET NAT","description":"\u003cp\u003eForever Young is named the way a mixtape gets named — Tamara labels her Pét-Nats after the songs that were playing while she made them, cassette tapes printed right on the bottle. This one is a cuvée of Gelber Muskateller and Welschriesling, hand-picked from the steep slopes around Ratsch and finished entirely on the estate, because that's the whole point of Pét-Nat for Tamara: nothing has to leave the farm. The result is taut and dry, white apple and citrus zest, with a fine, persistent mousse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrapes are hand-harvested from Kögl's biodynamic, Demeter-certified vineyards on the steep slopes around the Stermetzberg, farmed without synthetic inputs and worked almost entirely by hand due to the incline. Fermentation begins spontaneously with native yeasts and is bottled before it finishes, so the wine completes its fermentation inside the bottle, trapping natural CO2 and a fine sediment of lees. No dosage, no disgorgement, no filtration — sealed under crown cap.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weingut Kögl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57941109440844,"sku":"SW-AT-KOGL-FOYO-23","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1032\/0360\/2764\/files\/Frame20_06e8c9b7-bc40-40f3-9038-5e5e9cd9a5dd.jpg?v=1783361619"},{"product_id":"rose-pet-nat","title":"ROSÉ PET NAT","description":"\u003cp\u003eTamara calls this one R.E.S.P.E.C.T. — another cassette on the label, another mood in the glass. It's made entirely from Zweigelt, worked as a rosé Pét-Nat: own grapes, indigenous yeast, the same on-farm philosophy as Forever Young, but built around red fruit instead of white. Only 2,600 bottles of this vintage exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike her other Pét-Nats, this one is disgorged before release, giving it a cleaner, more precise finish while keeping the natural fizz from bottle fermentation. The colour is barely-there salmon pink, the nose all redcurrant and strawberry jam, and the palate is silky, mineral, tightly balanced between fruit and acidity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weingut Kögl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57941110358348,"sku":"SW-AT-KOGL-ROPN-24","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1032\/0360\/2764\/files\/Frame20_fcf865dc-271b-48d2-81fb-e226a0a4684e.jpg?v=1783361684"},{"product_id":"morillon-kalkmergel","title":"MORILLON KALKMERGEL","description":"\u003cp\u003eKalkmergel is the name of the soil, and Tamara names this bottling after it directly — a Morillon (Styria's word for Chardonnay) grown on the limestone-marl slopes around Ehrenhausen and the Stermetzberg. Falstaff scored this bottling 92 points, describing it as juicy and finessed, with ripe stone fruit lingering into the finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-harvested from biodynamic, Demeter-certified vineyards on the Kalkmergel soil around Ehrenhausen — organic since 2013, biodynamic since 2018. Vinified fully dry in the Austrian DAC tradition, with minimal intervention. It's the chalky, mineral-rich Kalkmergel underneath the vines that gives the wine its structure: a creamy, harmonious mid-palate balanced by a fine, precise acid line through the finish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weingut Kögl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57941112258892,"sku":"SW-AT-KOGL-MOKM-24","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1032\/0360\/2764\/files\/Frame20_fb405a9a-38b2-41e4-a67d-856c58f63b42.jpg?v=1783361898"},{"product_id":"sauvignon-blanc-kalkmergel","title":"SAUVIGNON BLANC KALKMERGEL","description":"\u003cp\u003eSauvignon Blanc is Southern Styria's calling card, but Kögl's version comes from vines rooted directly in Kalkmergel — the chalky limestone-marl that gives the region's best whites their electricity. Tamara farms these slopes biodynamically, by hand, because the incline leaves no other choice. What lands in the glass is unmistakably Sauvignon Blanc — gooseberry, passionfruit, that green edge — but with a power and a salty, citrus-driven finish that comes straight from the soil underneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-picked from Kögl's Demeter-certified biodynamic vineyards on Kalkmergel soil around Ehrenhausen — organic since 2013, biodynamic since 2018. Fermented and matured with minimal intervention, letting the limestone-marl terroir drive the wine's structure: powerful fruit up front, a lively acid backbone, and a distinctly saline, citrus-tinged finish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weingut Kögl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57941113110860,"sku":"SW-AT-KOGL-SBKM-24","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1032\/0360\/2764\/files\/Frame20_e4dd6625-bbad-4103-b1c3-70177e2ea276.jpg?v=1783362041"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.stranger.wine\/en-de\/collections\/weingut-kogl.oembed","provider":"360 Stranger Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}