After the warm, abundant 2018, the 2019 growing season in Burgenland brought cooler nights, better temperature variation between day and night, and a longer, slower ripening period. The result across the region was wines with notably sharper acidity, leaner structure and greater aromatic precision than the preceding vintage. Timotheus responds particularly well to this kind of year. His character as a wry, slightly bitter and intellectual wine, singular in its lean, acid-driven structure, with tangerine pith, white pepper and dried bouquet garni meeting a lithe texture and powdered granite minerality, finds its fullest expression when the vintage gives him less opulence and more edge to work with.

The winemaking is unchanged. Grüner Veltliner and Weissburgunder from 40-year-old vines on limestone, slate and gravel, one third on skins for three weeks, the rest direct-pressed, then blended and aged twelve months in used 500-litre barrels. Nothing added. Six years of bottle age have softened the tannins from that skin contact and allowed the mineral core to emerge cleanly, without the weight and richness of a warmer year sitting on top of it. This is the most precise and intellectually satisfying of the four Timotheus vintages currently available. A wine for someone who wants depth without excess and pleasure without compromise.