Grassl winery

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The Grassl winery in Göttlesbrunn is an Austrian winery in the Carnuntum wine-growing region in Lower Austria .

history

The winemaker couple Angelika and Philipp Grassl have been running the business since 2016 and "work hand in hand with their parents Susanne and Hans", who took over the winery from Philip's grandfather. After the Second World War, he began to fill wine into bottles. The winery is a member of the "Rubin Carnuntum Wineries" and is considered one of the most successful wineries in the Carnuntum wine region.

Vineyards, varieties

The vineyard area is 37 hectares, of which 75 percent are planted with red and 25 percent with white grape varieties (as of 2018). In the case of red wines, around half of the production is attributable to the Zweigelt variety , which is also the leading variety in the area. Around 25 percent of the red wine cultivation area is planted with Pinot Noir and St. Laurent , the rest is made up of Blaufränkisch and international grape varieties that are required for the cuvées . The winery has made a name for itself above all with the premium red wine cuvée Bärnreiser and premium wines from the St. Laurent and Zweigelt varieties. In the white wine segment, quality wines of the varieties Chardonnay , Sauvignon Blanc , Grüner Veltliner and Gelber Muskateller are listed.

literature

  • Vinaria . Wine Guide 2013/14. The 3800 best Austrian wines . Edition LWmedia, Krems 2013, ISBN 978-3-9502275-6-7 , p. 193.
  • Falstaff . Wine Guide 2013. Austria / South Tyrol. 3000 current wines. 500 sources . Falstaff Verlag, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-902660-23-7 , pp. 101f.
  • Stephan Reinhardt: Carnuntum. Dream game or future project? In: Stuart Pigott , Andreas Durst, Ursula Heinzelmann, Chandra Kurt , Manfred Lüer and Stephan Reinhardt: Wine speaks German. Wines, winemakers, wine landscapes , Scherz Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4 , p. 614.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephen Brook: The wines of Austria , Classic Wine Library. Infinite Ideas 2015, ISBN 1-910-9020-04 , p. 126.
  2. ↑ Carnuntum's Top Scorer 2012: Top red wines from Carnuntum continue to advance ( Memento from September 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 '26.6 "  N , 16 ° 44' 14.3"  E