Krutzler winery

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Krutzler winery

The Krutzler winery in German Schützen-Eisenberg is an Austrian winery in the Eisenberg wine-growing region .

history

Hermann Krutzler laid the foundation stone for the success of the family-run company, who was already bottling quality wines in the mid-1960s. As one of the pioneers of Austrian red wine, he drew attention to the potential of southern Burgenland at an early stage. Today the winery, which is one of Austria's red wine elite, is run by his son Reinhold Krutzler. The winery has won the Falstaff Red Wine Award several times and is a member of the Renowned Wineries Burgenland (RWB).

The winery

The vineyard area is 12 hectares (as of 2015), 98 percent of which are planted with red grape varieties, 80 percent of which are planted with Blaufränkisch . Other grape varieties are Zweigelt , Cabernet Sauvignon , Merlot and Welschriesling . The vineyards are located in Deutsch-Schützen and on the Eisenberg in a south-southeast facing basin, in a wind-protected, Pannonian microclimate . The terroir is characterized by mineral, iron-containing clay and slate soils.

The company's top wine is the Blaufränkisch Perwolff , for which the best (selected) grapes from old Blaufränkisch vines are used with the addition of a small amount of Cabernet Sauvignon (according to the Austrian wine law, a wine can be described as single-variety , if not more than 15 percent from others Varieties exist). Reinhold Krutzler explains the extraordinary complexity of this wine by the fact that the grapes come from several vineyards with different, very beneficial soil formations. Some of the grapes come from the Deutsch-Schützen vineyard, right in front of Krutzler's front door, where strong, clay-infused soils predominate. Another part comes from the cool Deutsch-Schützener Lage Ratschen, where the formations consist of medium-strength soils with sand deposits. The wine gets its distinctive minerality from those grapes that ripen on the slate-strewn Eisenberg. Therefore, in the case of Blaufränkisch Perwolff, it is precisely the merging of the grapes from different locations that is extremely advantageous.

In the red wine segment, in addition to top wine, there is a Blaufränkisch reserve, a classically developed Blaufränkisch, a Zweigelt classic and a Merlot in the reserve category. In the white wine segment, Krutzler expands the Welschriesling native to the area as a single variety.

literature

  • Stephan Reinhardt: Burgenland. The red wine wonderland is growing up . In: Stuart Pigott , Andreas Durst, Ursula Heinzelmann, Chandra Kurt , Manfred Lüer, Stephan Reinhardt (eds.): Wine speaks German. Wines, winemakers, wine landscapes . 1st edition. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4 , pp. 604-605 .
  • Klaus Egle: The Austrian wine. The big manual . 1st edition. Pichler Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85431-403-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vinaria. Wine Guide 2011/12. The 3500 best Austrian wines . Edition LWmedia, Krems 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502275-3-6 , p. 420.
  2. ↑ Awards on the winery homepage
  3. ^ Peter Moser: Falstaff. Wine Guide 2009/2010. Austria. South Tyrol . Falstaff, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-902660-03-9 , p. 623 f.
  4. ↑ Johann Werfring: Perwolff is Falstaff winner . In: Wiener Zeitung . January 2, 2010, p. 46 (supplement “Wiener Journal”).

Coordinates: 47 ° 9 ′ 56 ″  N , 16 ° 26 ′ 56 ″  E