Gobelsburg Castle Winery

Main facade and gabled portal of Gobelsburg Castle (south wing). The wine cellars below go back to the 11th century. The estate's wines still mature there today.

The Schloss Gobelsburg winery in Gobelsburg , a cadastral municipality of Langenlois , is an Austrian winery in the Kamptal wine-growing region in Lower Austria .

history

The winery has been owned by the Cistercian monastery Zwettl since 1740 . From 1958 the future abbot, Father Bertrand Baumann, ran the winery and made the “Gobelsburger Messwein” a well-known brand. Michael Moosbrugger (* 1966) has managed the winery since 1996. This qualitative and structural renewal was supported by Willi Bründlmayer . The winery is a member of the traditional wineries Austria .

Vineyards and wines

The vineyards total 60 hectares (as of 2016), 80% of which are planted with white and 20% with red grape varieties. The best-known Rieslings come from the Heiligenstein and Gaisberg sites , the best Veltliners from the Lamm , Kammerner Renner and Grub vineyards . These locations are all managed according to organic principles. The tradition is a specialty . Under this wine every year, depending on a Veltliner and Riesling separately expanded . Michael Moosbrugger tries to interpret the philosophy and practical approach of pre-industrial viticulture with the viticultural means of the present. Like a traditional tree press , the traditional wines are pressed particularly gently and then spontaneously fermented and matured in large Manhartsberg oak barrels without degumming . They go on sale a year later, although the longer maturing time is supposed to give them more complexity.

literature

• Stuart Pigott , Andreas Durst, Ursula Heinzelmann, Chandra Kurt , Manfred Lüer, Stephan Reinhardt: Wine speaks German . 1st edition. Scherz, Frankfurt am Main, 2007, ISBN 978-3-502-19000-4 .
• Klaus Egle: The Austrian wine. The big manual . 1st edition. Pichler Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-85431-403-5 .

Web links

Commons : Schloss Gobelsburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the winery
• Winery Schloss Gobelsburg on weinhabenesterreich.at

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Peter Moser: Falstaff. Wine Guide 2008/2009. Austria. South Tyrol . Falstaff , Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-39502147-8-9 , p. 115ff.
2. ↑ Hugh Johnson : Little Johnson 2009 . Hallwag Verlag, Bern 2008, ISBN 3-83381-220-6 , p. 224.

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 ′ 40 ″  N , 15 ° 41 ′ 46 ″  E