Besides wine, the Lackner Tinnacher estate in Gamlitz in Austria’s beautiful province of Styria is famous for the fruit it grows. And harvests by hand. The outstanding quality distillates it produces are cellared and left to mature for up to 12 years before being bottled in line with an 18th century edict dating back to the days of Empress Maria Theresa.
And this is where we enter the picture: at the point when the finished product is bottled in elegant, dark turquoisey-green etched, half-litre apothecary bottles. Almost mystical in appearance, they bear the venerated name of Lackner Tinnacher’s estate address, “Steinbach No. 12.” So. Time for another.
