WEINVIERTEL vintage 2020 at its best
24. February 2021
A summer like in former times with enough rainfall in all parts of the huge Weinviertel helped to produce wines of classic appeal. After the moderately wet months of winter 2019/2020, the starting soil water content for the new vintage was moderately dry. The months of pruning up until budbreak were quite warm, and precipitation...
Weinviertel wines break records at the SALON once again
9. September 2020
Weinviertel wines continue their winning streak again at this year’s “toughest wine competition in the country”. 54 of Austria’s 270 best wines come from the Weinviertel. As in 2017, no less than six Weinviertel wines are champions of their categories. The SALON Austrian Wine Awards is the national championship of domestic wines, based on...
Eight at one blow!
3. August 2020
Eight of the Niederösterreich (Lower Austria) state champions at the 2020 Niederösterreich Landesweinprämierung (Lower Austria State Wine Awards) come from the Weinviertel. The region was particularly successful and proved its strength in the supreme discipline, Grüner Veltliner. Weinviertel was the champion in both the light-bodied category “Grüner Veltliner leicht” and the full-bodied category “Grüner Veltliner...
WEINVIERTEL DAC ANNUAL REPORT – YEAR 2019
15. April 2020
CONQUER THE WORLD! 2019 was a thrilling year, marked by exciting change and development. New DAC protected designations of origin were established in Austria and brought with them new category systems: clearly structured single-variety strategies versus the pyramid-like hierarchy of regional, village and single-vineyard wine origins, some of which have many grape varieties. In our view,...
The Weinviertel 2019 Vintage – Classic Beauty
12. February 2020
Throughout the Weinviertel, Austria‘s largest winemaking area, vintners are pleased and quite satisfied with the 2019 vintage in terms of both quality and quantity, the latter of which corresponds to a solid average yield. The weather last year did not create any serious challenges for winemakers, and the results in their cellars have been sensational....
Weinviertel wines with an impressive winning streak
19. June 2019
Weinviertel wines with an impressive winning streak The Weinviertel set a new record with 9 out of 18 winners at the Niederösterreich State Wine Awards and 5 champions at the SALON Austrian Wine, once again confirming that Weinviertel wines are among the best in Austria. The Weinviertel, one of the eight wine-growing regions of Niederösterreich,...
WEINVIERTEL DAC ANNUAL REPORT – YEAR 2018
3. June 2019
The year 2018 was a challenge in many respects. First and foremost, the weather was very capricious throughout the country. Humans and nature had to cope with high temperatures and lack of rain. There were also developments in Austria’s protected designations of origin (DAC). Three DAC regions in Steiermark (Styria) and the Rosalia DAC in...
Weinviertel 2018 Vintage
10. March 2019
Late Bud Break, Early Harvest, Delightful Finish. In Austria’s Weinviertel, the 2018 vintage was characterized by a late bud break, rapid shoot growth, and extremely early flowering at the end of May, then high summer heat and an extraordinarily early harvest. In 2018 budding started very late around the end of April, followed by...
Weinviertel rises masterfully to the challenges of the vintage 2017
13. February 2018
Despite several weather challenges in the Weinviertel in 2017, vintners throughout the region are highly pleased with the wine quality. Heat and drought determined the course of the year and led to a harvest volume that was slightly below the long-term average. Whether in the southern, western or eastern Weinviertel, every vintner will answer “very...
Wine vintage 2016 in Weinviertel – wild start, perfect end
22. February 2017
Mother Nature proved to be a powerful goddess in 2016 and she didn’t make things easy for Weinviertel vintners, especially in the spring. Frost damage at the end of April was significant, yet varied greatly between locations. In contrast, the wine year came to a conciliatory end with outstanding harvest weather conditions throughout the Weinviertel....
New Regional Wine Committee appointed
20. February 2017
Weinviertel, February 2017: The newly appointed members of the Regional Wine Committee Weinviertel elected the vintner Hans Setzer as chairman on 20 February 2017. Herbert Toifl will serve as his vice chairman and head of the quality committee for the next five years. Kerstin Schüller follows Setzer as head of the marketing committee. The Regional...
