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We are right at the beginning
This site is new and grows slowly, because every portrait starts with a conversation. We would rather have it right than have a lot of it.
A private wine project from the Wachau
Sometimes there is a glass in front of you and you want to know who made it.
We are Jürgen and Sabine and we live in Mautern an der Donau. When a wine catches our attention, we ask the winery about it and write down what is behind it: the people, the vineyards and the decisions you cannot read off the label.
How we work
Why this site exists
Because you cannot tell from a bottle how much work, origin and how many decisions went into it. So we ask, and then we write it down.
Close by
From the area we live in
We live in the Wachau. Kremstal, Kamptal and Traisental are on our doorstep and help explain why a wine tastes the way it does.
Curious
The work is what interests us
Site, soil, harvest, cellar, family history, sometimes a grape variety hardly anyone still grows. That says more than any label.
Origin
The Wachau is home. The neighbouring regions help put it in context.
Good wines rarely happen by accident. Landscape, climate, soils, village structure and the decisions each winery makes explain why a wine tastes the way it does.
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Wachau
Wachau wine is shaped by steep terraces, cool Danube air and white wines that make Grüner Veltliner and Riesling feel especially precise.
Kremstal
Kremstal
Kremstal wine connects Krems, Danube terraces, loess soils and the Göttweigerberg in Grüner Veltliner and Riesling with clear tension.
Kamptal
Kamptal
Kamptal wine shows how the Kamp river, Heiligenstein, loess, rock and cool air give Grüner Veltliner, Riesling and Pinot-family varieties tension.
Traisental
Traisental
Traisental wine is versatile, limestone-shaped and often strikingly precise: Grüner Veltliner, Riesling and small wineries show plenty of origin in a compact region.
Dates in the region
Tastings, open cellar doors and reasons for a day out.
Events we would happily go to ourselves. The organiser and the programme are named with each date.
Wachau
Heuriger wine tavern: Restaurant Alter Klosterkeller
Heurigentermin in Dürnstein: Alter Klosterkeller. Ein saisonaler Termin für Wachau-Wein, regionale Küche und einen entspannten Besuch vor Ort.
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Heuriger wine tavern: Weingärtnerei Graf
Heurigentermin in Dürnstein: Weingärtnerei Graf. Ein saisonaler Termin für Wachau-Wein, regionale Küche und einen entspannten Besuch vor Ort.
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Heuriger wine tavern: Weingut Stalzer
Heurigentermin in Spitz: Weingut Stalzer. Ein saisonaler Termin für Wachau-Wein, regionale Küche und einen entspannten Besuch vor Ort.
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