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The wine year 2024

We winegrowers are very attached to nature. Because we love working with it and because it forms the basis of our livelihood. The resulting challenges make life exciting, not always easy, but often happy. After all, we vinify our wine the way we like to drink it ourselves. We all know that nature has to play along and that we must not play with nature, and as winegrowers in Vulkanland Steiermark we can count ourselves lucky.

In 2024, we were able to draw from the full. The year brought plenty of rain, lots of sunshine, and, in the finale, the most condensed harvest of all time. For many years, the harvest period here lasted over a month, but in 2023 the grapes were in the cellar in 17 days and this year, after the start of the harvest on August 29, they were even harvested in just 13 days. You have to plan extremely well, but nature is still our friend. 

We look forward to seeing you in our 
farm store in Karbach.

OPENING HOURS ESTATE STORE / HOFLADEN:  

MARCH TO OCTOBER TO THE END OF FEBRUARY:
Monday to Saturday 10-12 and 13-17

MARCH TO OCTOBER
Monday to Saturday 10-12 and 13-18Closed on Sundays and public holidays.

We are taking a break from December 23, 2024, to January 8, 2025

 

SAVE the date

Events 2025

 
March, 16–18 
ProWein, Germany / Düsseldorf
 
April 2nd
STYRIAN WINE 
Presentation in Graz, Stadthalle
 
May, 23rd
Pinot gris festival in Straden
 
June 7th
Open cellar day
at our wine cellar, vineyard Buch
 
June 14th
STK presentation at our wine cellar,
 
 
 
 

NEWS

Nice premiere in Guide A LA CARTE  2024
For the first time, a (dry) white wine from us received 99 points from this guide:  2021 Sauvignon Blanc, Ried Buch G STK. 

Further A LA CARTE ratings:

98+ P. 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Privat 
98+ P. 2017 Sauvignon Blanc TBA Essenz, Ried Stradener Rosenberg
97+ P. 2021 Morillon Ried Buch G STK
97 P. 2021 Weißburgunder Ried Buch G STK
95+ P. 2021 Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris) Ried Stradener Rosenberg
95 P. 2022 Traminer Ried Stradener Rosenberg 1. STK

 Wine tasting notes A la carte  

James Suckling, a well-known wine critic in the USA, also gave our wines a great rating:
96 P. 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Privat
95 P. 2021 Sauvignon Blanc Ried Buch G STK
94 P. 2021 Weißburgunder Ried Buch G STK
94 P. 2021 Morillon Ried Buch G STK

 Wine tasting notes Suckling  

GUIDE FALSTAFF 2024
98 P. 2017 Sauvignon Blanc TBA Essenz Ried Stradener Rosenberg
97 P. 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Privat 
96 P. 2021Sauvignon Blanc Ried Buch G STK
95 P. 2021 Morillon Ried Buch G STK
94 P. 2021 Weißburgunder Ried Buch G STK

 Wine tasting notes Falstaff 

GAULT MILLAU WEINGUIDE 2024
The editors chose our Sauvignon Blanc Ried Buch 2021 as their favorite wine from Vulkanland Styria. :-)

17,5 P. 2021 Sauvignon Blanc Ried Buch 
18,5 P. 2019 Sauvignon Blanc Privat 
18,5 P. 2017 Sauvignon Blanc TBA Essenz Ried Stradener Rosenberg 
18 P. 2021 Weißburgunder Ried Buch
17,5 P. 2 0 21 Morillon Ried Buch

So glad you like our wine! :-)

Willi Balanjuk, A LA CARTE, about our 2021 Sauvignon Blanc, Ried Buch (99 P.):
"Bright color, intense, complex nose, dark spicy notes, verbena, candied orange, lemon balm, pimentos, full-bodied, dense and tightly meshed, lively structure, fruity-spicy finish, verbena and mint in the aftertaste, elderflower in the back aroma, huge potential."

So schön! Stephan Reinhardt schrieb für den
Robert Parker Wine Advocat, September 2022:
"The Weißburgunder Ried Buch GSTK 2020 shows clear, elegant fruit with oak and yeasty notes and deep mineral substance. Delicate and elegant on the palate, with juicy fruit, this is a firmly structured, dense and persistent Pinot Blanc with fine tannins and lingering mineral, salty, savory notes and always lively structure. Great Pinot Blanc."

Peter Moser has summed up the characteristics of our wine-growing region in a nutshell (an excerpt):
"The wines of south-eastern Styria are clearly on course for success: this is confirmed by the Falstaff "Vulkanland Steiermark DAC Trophy 2021", in which white wine winners were recognized in eleven categories. Diversity is of paramount importance in the Vulkanland Steiermark wine-growing region and is anything but a buzzword here. Here, the vineyards are spread over many areas, some of which are not contiguous, and on soils of a geological diversity that cannot be found in any other wine-growing region in Austria."

 

 
Selected Press Voices 

Stephan Reinhard, Robert Parker Wine Advocate 
 “The 2017 Ried Buch Weissburgunder is produced from a clay basalt and reveals a clear, fresh and elegant, perfectly matured and flintily spicy basalt bouquet. Velvety, linear, fresh and very elegant on the palate; this is a compact, excitingly lean, moderately vigorous Pinot with clear and refreshing fruit notes, though the music here comes exclusively from its soul (the ground).”

Sauvignon Blanc Privat 2013: “Tasted out of a large glass (...), this is a powerful, highly complex, robust and salty, very lean and concentrated Sauvignon, that belongs to the high points of Styrian history. It is so salty, pure and exciting. A magnificent wine.”

2017 Straden Morillon Trockenbeerenauslese (sweet wine specialty): (...) “Tremendously rich and sophisticated elegant on the palate, this is a viscose, refined, extremely subtle and stimulating salty TBA, with an aftertaste that is balanced, fresh and stimulatingly clean. This is a spectacularly hedonistic TBA (...) a world-class sweet wine from Styria.” 

96 RP: 
Ried Buch, Sämling 2017, Trockenbeerenauslese
Ried Buch, Morillon, 2017, Trockenbeerenauslese
Straden, Sauvignon Blanc Privat 2013

93+ RP: 
Ried Buch, Morillon 2017
Ried Buch, Sauvignon Blanc 2017, Trockenbeerenauslese
Straden, Sauvignon Blanc Privat 2017
Ried Buch, Weißburgunder 2017, Trockenbeerenauslese

92+ RP: 
Ried Buch, Weißburgunder 2017
Straden, Traminer 2017, Trockenbeerenauslese

PDF THE RATING

 

Livets Goda, the leading wine magazine in Scandinavia
”Walter Frauwallner has made a name for himself, not least through his sweet wines and is undoubtedly one of the sharpest producers in the province when it comes to Eiswein and TBA.”