Weingut Weixelbaum is the winery of Heinz and Gabi Weixelbaum from the village of Strass in Austria's Kamptal. It's a medium-sized, typically Austrian winery - a family business passed down from generation to generation. Everything is done by hand, and the cellar is full of the most modern equipment. Heinz Weixelbaum has very fine vineyards on soils of 'Urgestein' and 'loess'. And Heinz dares to prune hard in spring, so his wines are more powerful than most from the region.
The Weixelbaum family makes wine only from grapes grown in their own 22 hectares of vineyards. These are managed by Heinz, while Gabi handles marketing and sales. The cellar was completely renovated with the most modern equipment about 10 years ago. Are you in the area? Then you can not only come taste wines, but also stay overnight at the estate, in one of the two apartments available here for guests.
About 90% of Weingut Weixelbaum's wines are white, with Grüner Veltliner as the most important grape, followed by Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc. A small part is made from Roter Veltliner and Chardonnay. For red wines, Zweigelt and Syrah are planted. Weixelbaum prunes heavily, so the yield per hectare is low but the quality of the juice is high. The white wines are fermented in steel tanks. The 'Wahre Werte' line then gets a further aging in large wooden foudres.
Weixelbaum's vineyards lie in the Kamptal around the town of Strass. Part lies on the so-called 'Urgestein', a very old bedrock found in the Kamptal that gives the grapes grown on it (and thus also the wines) a striking minerality. Other vineyards lie on 'loess', a layer of sand blown onto the Kamptal from the Alps over many thousands of years. The dark-skinned grapes stand in vineyards with a loam subsoil. The vineyards experience a relatively large temperature difference between day and night, which is very beneficial for the ripening of the grapes.
Finally - and this has a major influence on the quality of Weixelbaum's wines - Heinz dares to wield the pruning shears. This leaves the vines with fewer grape bunches. Heinz Weixelbaum harvests no more than 4.5 to 5 hectoliters per hectare, where many colleagues harvest double that. But that makes the juice more concentrated, and the wine too. Weixelbaum's wines are mouth-filling and more powerful than most other wines from the region. We currently have five wines from Weingut Weixelbaum in our range. You can view all our wines from Weingut Weixelbaum here.
If you want to know more about this winery, here you will find the link to the website of Weingut Weixelbaum.
Orange wine (27) 
Fresh (90) 
Light (36) 
Rosé (14) 
Aromatic (22) 
Medium (98) 
Sparkling (27) 
Ripe (71) 
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