‘2023 still gives me shivers’, Christoph Neumeister wrote when I asked him about the vintage. ‘It was a big, challenging fight from May to October. We had a severe hailstorm at the end of June that affected 60% of all my vineyards and the west-facing ones were destroyed between 60 and 100% – even under the hail nets :/ Fire fighters had to clear the...
Austria's Single Vineyard Summit 2025 – Styria
Tuesday 18 November 2025
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There is no such thing as a bad vintage; there is only hard and harder. And Styria’s 2023s prove their growers’ mettle. Above, Gerhard Wohlmuth looking up at the Edelschuh vineyard in Kitzeck-Sausal, Südsteiermark.
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