Grüner
Veltliner

The grapes of this wine are growing in the flat area surrounding the town of Dürnstein alongside the river Danube on well drained sandy sediments and gravel. These soils create an aromatical kind of wine characterized by timeless elegance. Early picking causes a moderate alcohol level and a well-integrated bracing acidity. The wine is totally dry, animating and is usually drunk young.

Grape variety: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ∼10-25 Jahre
Harvest: by hand mid of September
Fermenation andmaturation: 4-5 months in stainless steel
Bottling: in spring after harvest (February/ March)
Alcohol: 12-12,5% by vol

In the region of Danube’s‘ river knee the grapes for this wines are growing on well drained sediments like pebbles and augmented sand. These kind of deep  soils are showing in this wine in a very sublime way: spicy and juicy, vigorous and elegant at the same time this wine can age for several years and develop stunningly – an absolutely Wachau Grüner Veltliner classic!

Grape variety: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ∼30-45 years
Harvest: by hand mid/end of September
Fermentation and maturation: 5-6 months in stainless steel and big oak casks (15 hl) partly
Bottling: March/ April
Alcohol: 12,5-13% Vol

Off the old city wall of Dürnstein like a veranda glancing at the river Danube the unique position of this site, together with the soil contenting weathered sediments of primary rock, generates a singular expression of Grüner Veltliner: never fruity but always spicy and salty, equipped with matchless acidity. This wine stays in big oak casks on the yeast and lees till shortly before bottling. Patience and experience are appropriate with this wine and will be amply rewarded after some years of maturating – one of our signature wines!

Grape variety: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ∼40-80 years
Harvest: by hand beginning of October
Fermentation and maturation: 8-10 months in big oak casks (9-15 hl)
Bottling: late summer (August)
Alcohol: 13-13,5% Vol

The single vineyard Ried Loibenberg is one of the greats in the list of the vintage sites in entire Wachau region. On the south facing stone terraces soaring above the river Danube, in a basin with sediments of Loess, the more than 50 years old vines are growing. They create a marvellous wine getting to the heart of this very specific terroir. Rewarding a not too late picking the wine is generic Loibenberg, but never bold, but puristic and reduced to the substance.

Grape variety: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ∼50 years
Harvest: by hand mid of October
Fermentation and maturation: 8-9 months in big oak casks (6-9hl)
Bottling: July/ August
Alcohol: 13,5-14% Vol

The Cru Dürnsteiner Kellerberg is the paragon for a top single vineyard in the Wachau region. Vines are growing on south-eats facing terraces made of natural stones with soils of weathered Gneiss and some layers of Loess on the bottom of the slope. A long vegetation period caused by the cool airflow in the nights is inducing a very late harvest. This particular kind of microclimate is responsible for unique wines combining refinement and power in their own inimitable way. Often the wines are at once smoky-hedonic and delicate-savoury.

Grape variety: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ∼25-35 years
Harvest: by hand end of October/ beginning of November
Fermentation and maturation: 10 months in big oak casks (6-15hl)
Bottling: August
Alcohol: 13,5-14% Vol

A more than 65 years old tiny parcel, quite unusually planted with Grüner Veltliner, is producing this wine. The soils are barren and composed of crystalline primary rock dominated by Gneiss and Mica schist. The choice of grape variety is quite unusual, but the vines are old and the result therefore demanding and full of character: a mineral, unusual one of a kind for advanced savourer.

Grape variety: Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ∼65 years
Harvest: by hand mid of October
Fermentation and maturation: 8-9 months in big oak casks (6-9hl)
Bottling: August
Alcohol: 13-13,5% Vol

The grapes for this quite another kind of reading the grape variety Grüner Veltliner are coming from the sites Kellerberg, Wunderburg and Supperin. The must without sedimentation is fermenting in 600 l barrels of Austrian oak and stay there for 20-24 months on the lees. After racking and sedimentation this wine is bottled unfiltered. On the first glance the result is a cosmopolitan wine, which one is showing his identity in a very distinct way: smoky-generous with some tight minerality and enormous length.

Grape Variety: Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ∼25-35 years
Harvest: by hand end of October
Fermentation and maturation: 20-24 months in 6hl oak cask and 4-6 months stainless steel
Bottling: unfiltered in March/ April
Alkohol: 13,5-14% Vol