"...Elegant and complex, perfectly balanced...can hardly be much better. 94 pts." -Falstaff

James Suckling 93
"What a stunning nose... On the medium-bodied palate there's also wonderful fruit, but the herbal freshness is stunning and it flips effortlessly into pronounced wet-stone minerality. Vibrant and long finish. From the best sites, mostly with red slate soil. Fermented in large neutral oak and matured on the lees until June after the harvest. Vegan. Sustainable. Drink or hold. Screw cap. 93." James Suckling

The Wohlmuths have been cultivating wine in Kitzeck-Sausal for over 200 years. Now, as then, the solid slate formations in the soil are pounded by hammer to plant each new vine. For generations, some of the earliest mentioned single vineyards in Austria have been owned by the Wohlmuth family. This is exemplified best by the Edelschuh vineyard, first mentioned in documentation in 1322. Preserving centuries-old single sites and re-cultivating other faded vineyards means accepting incredible trials and challenges.

The vineyards lie at an altitude of 400 to 600 meters above sea level and with a slope of up to 90 percent, they are among the steepest vineyards in Europe. Up to 1,200 hours of work go into each hectare of these extreme vineyards every year. Labor-intensive hand cultivation is thus inherently at the heart of the estate's work, from pruning to the entire foilage work to the selective hand harvest. These single vineyards and the Kitzeck-Sausal appellation itself produces wines characterized by the tension between warmth (Illyrian climate, ripe grapes) and coolness (Alpine influence, poor slate soils, high altitude).