Weingut Schönberger
– Austria
Started with 1 hectare in 1991, now 10 hectares across Mörbisch and Rust on Lake Neusiedl.
In Austria’s last village before the Hungarian border, on the shores of the Neusiedler See, Jakob and his sister Johanna make pure, natural wine. The region has the typical climate of the Central European lowlands — Pannonia — which stretches across parts of Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Croatia, and Serbia: hot, dry summers, icy winters, and rainfall in spring and autumn.
On the sun-drenched slopes of the Leitha Mountains, they cultivate their vineyards according to the strict principles of biodynamic viticulture (Demeter). This yields powerful grapes for full-bodied, expressive wines.
They take all the time needed to craft top-quality wines, committed to careful, gentle handling of the grapes during harvest and pressing, undisturbed cellar aging, no fining, no filtration, no additives, and only spontaneous fermentation. All wines are aged in wooden barrels.
