10 editor-picked Welschriesling producers across 1 region.
A guide to Welschriesling worth seeking out, by region. We list the estates, how each region expresses the grape, and the bottles that show it best.
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.
Frauenkirchen estate on the Neusiedlersee's east shore, working Zweigelt, St. Laurent and Blaufränkisch.
Tasting: By appointment, Monday to Friday 9am-1pm and 2-6pm, Saturday 10am-5pm.
Tip: The single-vineyard Ried Hallebühl Zweigelt is the estate's flagship red.
Horitschon estate organic since 2005 and biodynamic since 2006, farming Blaufränkisch on both sides of the Austrian-Hungarian border around Sopron.
Tasting: By appointment at the Horitschon estate.
Tip: The single-vineyard Kirchholz and Spern Steiner bottlings track the estate's Blaufränkisch terroir range.
Family run Deutschkreutz estate since 1975, certified organic since 2014, farming 46 hectares across a broad red and white range under the K+K Kirnbauer and Phantom labels.
Tasting: Monday to Saturday 10am-12pm and 1-6pm.
Tip: The Phantom label cuvées are the estate's premium single vineyard Blaufränkisch tier.
Welgersdorf estate on the Eisenberg's slate soils, a career changer project from the mid-1990s built on a less is more Blaufränkisch philosophy.
Tasting: Farm gate sales by telephone appointment.
Tip: The Ried Reihburg Blaufränkisch is Uwe Schiefer's most site specific bottling.
Fifth generation Deutsch Schützen estate built on two constants, Blaufränkisch and Welschriesling, expressing the Eisenberg hill's iron rich slate.
Tasting: Tastings by telephone appointment, any time.
Tip: Krutzler's Reihburg Blaufränkisch and Eisenberg Reserve are the estate's benchmark reds.
A small cellar on Rust's Hauptstraße where Kurt and Katrin Feiler pour their Blaufränkisch-led reds alongside the estate's noble-sweet Ruster Ausbruch. About 60 percent of the 27-hectare estate is planted to red varieties, with the trilogy of white, red and sweet wines poured together on request.
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.
A Schandl family estate in Rust producing traditional varieties since 1741, now run by Paul Schandl. The signature pour is the noble-sweet Ruster Ausbruch, made from botrytised Furmint and Welschriesling grown on the Rust hillsides.
Stephanie and Eduard, who took over the estate in 2007, farm biodynamically by hand and horse and bottle every cuvée under a hand-drawn family-portrait label.
Why locals love it: Overshadowed by Burgenland's classified DAC estates, Gut Oggau is better known internationally on natural-wine lists than to first-time regional visitors.
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