Salomon Undhof is a figurehead of Austrian wine history and one of the oldest private wineries in the country. White wines have been produced here for 230 years from some of the best Grand Cru sites along the Danube, including such well-known vineyards as "Ried Steiner Kögl", "Ried Pfaffenberg", "Ried Wachtberg" and "Ried Lindberg".
The winery's fame was established in the early 1930s with one of the first vineyard bottlings in Austria. Today, thanks to Bertold Salomon, the winery is known above all for its excellent dry Rieslings and Grüner Veltliners - long-lasting, elegant wines for which the estate is famous. More than half of the 25 hectares of vineyards are planted with Riesling, the rest with Grüner Veltliner and a small proportion with Gelber Traminer. The formerly ecclesiastical vineyard terraces of Salomon Undhof are located in the westernmost part of the Krems Valley, where the soils consist mainly of primary rock. In Stein an der Donau, the Kremstal wine-growing region and the Wachau World Heritage Site overlap. The name of the old wine town of Stein has its roots in the dominance of the primary rock soils on the stone terraces. Controlled, integrated vineyard management and the avoidance of herbicides keep these vineyards in a healthy balance. Bert and Fanny Marie are now the ninth generation of the family to work these vineyards. After 25 years with two harvests each (in Austria and Australia), parents Bertold and Gertrud passed on responsibility to the next generation and are now concentrating on the top-class red wines from their Australian "Salomon Estate" in Finniss River and the joint venture "Salomon & Andrew" in New Zealand.
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