Weixelbaum Grüner Veltliner Ried Gaisberg Reserve 2018

They tend to and nurture 110,000 vines on 28 hectares in the Kamptal wine-growing region. Their focus is on white wine, completed by a small but fine selection of reds. The success of their estate, which has been rewarded by quality seals, but more importantly by the loyalty of customers from Vienna to Los Angeles, lies in its holistic, ecological principles.

They speak the local dialect, and their vineyards love it!
They listen carefully to Nature and speak with it in the language of the terroir – in the Strassetal dialect. They use their hands to feel how their vineyard and its vines are doing. Throughout the year, they sow plants like camomile, camelina, fennel, heliotrope, and clover to provide food and habitat for bees and other small creatures. This vitalizes the vineyard and the soil and sustainably secures the quality of the grapes. During the winter, the beneficial creatures can shelter at the “Insect Hotel Group Weixelbaum”, with locations in all their vineyards. Nature rewards them with plentiful life.

Manual labour, wood and time
For the love of quality. The vineyards need manual labour, the cellars require knowledge and a large dose of gut feeling. With a great love for detail, they work to reflect the terroir with all its subtleties. Behind the scenes, gravity carries the grapes into the press and then further in free fall into the barrels. A glance at their cellars will tell you: the Weixelbaums are in love with wood. Alive, natural, fragrant, homely – that’s what they want for their wines until their time comes. Time – the most important tool in their cellar: time for the wine to ripen, to develop, to run riot and then gradually lose its rough edges. Their wines love it.

On the trail of the mammoth hunters
Terroir – a strong word, with a strong aura. For them, it’s simply the mix of everything that makes their Kamptal so special: the size of the mammoths that fell to the hunters’ spears 30,000 years ago, the expanse of the ancient sea that once covered the area, the diversity of the soils, which requires skilful placing of every grape, the mood swings of the air currents, shifting from Pannonia to the Forest Quarter, the solidarity of the winemakers, who smoke away the frost on clear nights, the strength in glasses raised together… all this is the terroir, and it’s the story their wines tell.