Göttweig Abbey has been growing wine for over 900 years. In 2006, Fritz Miesbauer took over the business and really brought the winery up to scratch and into the top league of Austrian producers. The magnificent Benedictine monastery is located opposite the wine town of Krems, on the south bank of the Danube, right at the top of the Göttweig hill. The complex, which was built according to plans by the famous architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, is known far beyond Austria's borders. The imposing baroque Kaiserstiege with its magnificent ceiling fresco by Paul Troger, which is used as a miniature version for the capsule of every bottle of this revived winery, is also imperial. The Benedictines settled here as early as 1083, and as early as the 16th century, the wines of the monastery were known for their quality and were therefore popular with the Austrian nobility and the imperial troops.
Today, a fresh breeze is blowing through the thick walls in the person of Fritz Miesbauer. 26 hectares of prime vineyards on the Göttweiger Berg belong to the winery. Miesbauer is particularly proud of the "prime sites" Gottschelle, Silberbichl and Pfaffenberg. The winery is a member of the "Traditionsweingüter Österreich", as it owns some vineyards that are over 1,000 years old. Miesbauer's uncompromising pursuit of quality is regularly honored by experts and Falstaff also named him "Falstaff Winemaker of the Year" in 2020.
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