GRABENWERK
& WACHAUWERK

The GRABENWERK represent introductory interpretations of a territory, the attempt to capture an entire valley. Instead of a detailed focus on a single vineyard, insights to a larger entity are offered, everything that distinguishes the entirety of the Spitzer Graben – the coolness, the steep terraces and meagre soils that highlight aroma and structure, which are completely different from the Wachau Danube Valley. Spiciness, rectilinearity and tautness unite with pine needle and forest floor notes. Fruit aromas support rather than push to the foreground.

The GRABENWERK are sourced from early pickings and grapes from younger parcels as well as some very old Grüner Veltliner vines with more than 50 years old. Work in the vineyard and cellar follow exactly the same production procedures as for our single-vineyard wines.

Here we take a look outside the Spitzer Graben to the opposite end of the Wachau in Mautern. We purchase Grüner Veltliner grapes there from a friend that cultivates his old vineyard the same way we take care of ours: attentively and with abundant manual labour. We make one wine from here, which represents an alternative concept to GRABENWERK. Softer, more approachable and warmer – WACHAUWERK tells the story of its terroir, which is marked with deep, humus-rich soil and a Pannonian climate.

Only 20 kilometres away from our vineyards in Spitzer Graben, it represents a completely different side of the Wachau. WACHAUWERK is the entry gate to our Grüner Veltliner world. It is vinified according to the same principles as our great single-vineyard wines. That means: whole cluster press, spontaneous fermentation, no fining and no filtration.