Pleil Christian

Producer description of "Weingut Pleil"

The winery is located in the municipality of Wolkersdorf, 15 kilometres north of Wien in the south of the Lower Austrian wine-growing region of Weinviertel. The traditional family has been cultivating wine here for 300 years. One ancestor is the composer Ignaz Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831), after whom a red and white wine cuvée series is named. DI Josef Pleil was president of the Austrian Winegrowers' Association from 1990 to 2013. He was one of the initiators of the new origin-controlled quality level DAC (Weinviertel DAC) introduced in Austria in 2003. The winery is run by son Ing. Christian Pleil after his education at the Klosterneuburg School of Vit iculture and internships in renowned wineries in Germany, California, South Africa and Australia.

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