Designation for a total of four vineyards (sites) in Austria. The name goes back either to the owner's name of a plot of land or to the frequent occurrence of beetles in a vineyard.
The east-southeast-facing vineyards cover 31 hectares of vines at an altitude of 304 to 364 metres above sea level with slopes ranging from 0 to 21°. The highly variable soils on rocky subsoil consist of primary rock (gneiss, mica schist), clay marl and sands. They are medium-humic, moderately permeable, warm and sheltered from the wind. Since 2005, a 7-metre-high sculpture made of 130 orange iron balls in the shape of a bunch of grapes, created by the artist Heimo Zobernig, has stood here (in the centre of the picture).
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Markus J. Eser
Weinakademiker und Herausgeber „Der Weinkalender“