Weingut Wohlmuth

Winery

Southern Styria
Fresing 24
8441 Kitzeck im Sausal
Styria
Austria
Fresing 24 Kitzeck im Sausal, Styria 8441 Austria
46.76763 15.44871
+43 (3456) 2303 100 % Handarbeit, kleine Erträge und steilste Hanglagen. Das Sausaler Weingut Wohlmuth arbeitet unter extremen Bedingungen und schafft dabei Weine von großer Finesse. Seit 1803 keltert die Familie Wohlmuth ihre Weine im südsteirischen Sausal rund um den höchstgelegenen Weinbau-Ort Österreichs Kitzeck., und sehr viel hat sich seither nicht geändert an ihrer Arbeit im Weingarten. Nach wie vor werden die massiven Schiefersteine der Bodenoberfläche mit Hämmer klein geschlagen und jeder einzelne Rebstock wird mühselig in die kargen Böden gearbeitet. Bewässerung gibt es hier keine und die steilsten Einzellagen werden nach wie vor mit der Sense gemäht. Die Weingärten liegen auf einer Seehöhe von 400 bis 610 Metern und zählen mit einer Steigung von bis zu 90%  zu den steilsten Rebbergen Europas. Bis zu 1.200 Arbeitsstunden fließen jährlich in jeden Hektar Weingarten dieser extremen Lagen, bis der fertige Wein in den Fässern liegt. Die prägnante Schiefermineralität findet sich in allen Weinen des Weingutes wider und steht für die feste Verwurzelung des Rebstockes mit dem vorherrschenden Boden des Sausals. Weingut Wohlmuth
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Falstaff Wineguide Austria 2022/23

Falstaff Wineguide Austria 2022/23

Since 1803, the Wohlmuth family have been pressing grapes in the southern Styrian town of Kitzeck im Sausal, the highest wine-growing village in Austria. Over the years their work has not changed much - just as in days gone by the solid slate rocks on the surface of the vineyards have to be beaten with hammers, and every single vine has to be laboriously worked into the barren soil. The most detailed manual work - from pruning to the entire foliage work to the selective hand harvest - is the basis of the quality of the wines. Their respect for the natural resources is characterised their renunciation of herbicides and insecticides. There is no irrigation here and the cover crop on the steepest vineyards is still cut with a scythe.

The vineyards lie at an altitude of 400 to 600 metres above sea level and, with a slope of up to 90 percent, they are among the steepest vineyards in Europe. Up to 1,200 hours of work go into each hectare of these extreme vineyards every year. The striking slate minerality can be found in all of the winery's wines and shows how firmly rooted the vine is within the predominant soil of the Kitzeck-Sausal appellation.

For generations some of the earliest mentioned single vineyards in Austria have been owned by the Wohlmuth family, such as the Edelschuh vineyard, first mentioned in a document in 1322. These historically significant single vineyards are maintained and preserved at great expense and occasionally laboriously replanted. But these vineyards are ultimately the foundation of a unique and special quality; they produce wines of provenance that are characterised by a tension between warmth (Illyrian climate, ripe grapes) and coolness (alpine influence, poor slate soil, high altitude).

DETAILS

  • Contact Person: Gerhard Wohlmuth
  • Exhibitions
  • Winemaker: Gerhard Wohlmuth
  • Tasting room
  • Cellar Door Sales
  • Production Style: Conventional
  • Cultivation Area in Hectares: 65
  • Food & Snacks for Sale

Opening hours

Monday
09:00 to 12:00
13:00 to 17:00
Tuesday
09:00 to 12:00
13:00 to 17:00
Wednesday
09:00 to 12:00
13:00 to 17:00
Thursday
09:00 to 12:00
13:00 to 17:00
Friday
09:00 to 12:00
13:00 to 17:00
Saturday
09:00 to 16:00
Sunday
closed

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