Four soils.Two valleys.One family.

Weathered gneiss and mica schist. Poor, free-draining, uncompromising — the soil that makes a wine ring.

Primary rock is the oldest ground we farm: weathered gneiss and mica schist, formed long before anyone here thought about wine. It holds almost no water and even fewer nutrients.

That is precisely its value. The vine has to root deeply to find what it needs, and what reaches the grapes is concentrated. Wines from primary rock carry a saline, almost stony line and a clarity no cellar technique can manufacture.

3 wines from this soil

• Grüner Veltliner Urgestein2024
• Riesling Urgestein2024
• Sauvignon Blanc2023

Fine wind-blown dust from the ice age. Deep and warm — it makes wines broad, creamy and easy to like.

Loess is dust the wind laid down here over thousands of years: chalky, fine-grained, metres deep. It holds warmth and water, and gives both back readily.

Wines from loess need no time to open up. They are round, fruity and creamy even when young — the soil for wines you want to drink rather than study.

8 wines from this soil

• Roter Veltliner2025
• Grüner Veltliner from Loess2024
• Pinot Blanc2024
• Yellow Muscat2024
• Cuvée2025
• Der Junge2024
• Grüner Veltliner
• Rivaner

Heavy, cool, retentive. The ground where our red varieties gain substance and depth.

Clay is the heaviest of our soils. It holds water tightly, stays cool, and forces the vine into a slower, steadier rhythm.

The red varieties benefit most. Here they gain tannin, colour and a dark, earthy core — the substance a wine needs if it is to spend a year in wood.

6 wines from this soil

• Zweigelt Rosé2024
• Zweigelt Classic2023
• Royal2023
• Zweigelt · St. Laurent Barrique2017
• Zweigelt Rosé
• Zweigelt

Rounded stones from old riverbeds. They store the sun and hand it back at night.

Where vines stand today, water once ran. What it left behind is gravel: rounded, sun-hungry stones threaded with sand.

By day they load up with warmth; by night they return it to the grapes. The result is ripe, driving wines that keep their freshness — because the cool nights coming off the Waldviertel settle the account.

2 wines from this soil

• Grüner Veltliner Old Vines2024
• Grüner Veltliner Ried Satzen2023