3 editor-picked estates growing Scheurebe in Burgenland.
Where to taste Scheurebe in Burgenland: the estates that grow it, how the region expresses the grape, and how to book a visit.
Seewinkel dessert wine specialist between Illmitz and the Neusiedlersee shore, world renowned for botrytis affected Trockenbeerenauslese from Welschriesling and Chardonnay.
Tasting: By appointment through the estate shop office in Illmitz.
Tip: The numbered Trockenbeerenauslese cuvées reward a decade or more of bottle age.
Family estate documented in Großhöflein since 1775, farming 25 hectares on the Leitha range's southern slopes across an unusually broad varietal range.
Tasting: By appointment at the Großhöflein cellar.
Tip: Steinzeiler is the estate's red cuvée, Blaufränkisch-led with smaller shares of Cabernet Sauvignon and Zweigelt from the Point and Setz parcels.
The Kracher family's Seewinkel vinotheque pours three generations of botrytised sweet wines alongside dry whites, in the same building as the family's Illmitz winery. Summer tastings happen under the vine arbor; November-to-March weekend visits need advance booking.