Johannes took over his family estate in 2012, continuing the vision of his father Hans who was a pioneer of organic viticulture in Austria in the 1980s. With 40 years of organic farming, the winery benefits from incredibly strong and healthy soils and vines, growing in the hills north and south of Velm-Götzendorf. Where the winery is located at the edge of the Weinviertel region, the vines grow in the acidic granite of the ‘Moravian Superunit’, which weathers to quartz rich-sand. Johannes relies on ancient methods of vinifying and ageing his wines such as hand picking, spontaneous fermentation and using wooden acacia barrels or amphorae. This is made possible by using perfect and healthy grapes – the basis for all great wines.
"Revolution" Non vintage wines – blends of different grapes and vintages based on a Solera system – fermentation on the skins in amphorae and aged in acacia 600L oak barrels.
Chardonnay (50%) x Riesling (25%) x Scheurebe (25%)
Chardonnay 2021: ~10 days of skin fermentation in 1000 lt amphoras; pressed and stored again in the amphoras.
Scheurebe 2017-2021: fermentation start on the berries; finished fermentation and stored in 600 lt barrels of acacia and oak
Riesling 2013-2021: solera system in 600 lt barrels and stainless steel (the old parts)
Juicy, textural, tropical.