The winery is located in the municipality of Spitz a. d. Donau in the Lower Austrian wine-growing region of Wachau. The family has been growing grapes here for over 100 years. The grandfather of the current owner was a co-founder of the winegrowers' cooperative Freie Weingärtner Wachau; today's Domäne Wachau. In 1982, the wine was bottled for the first time. After the viticulture school in Krems and practical training at the Emmerich Knoll winery, the business is run by Friedrich Rixinger jr. The vineyards cover 6.5 hectares in the Baumgartenthal, Kalkofen, Singerriedel, Tannen and Zornberg vineyards. They are planted with the white wine varieties Grüner Veltliner, Riesling and Neuburger. Some of the vines are very old. The near-natural cultivation is based on the rules of organic viticulture. This includes cover crop, the use of natural fertiliser, the renunciation of insecticides and instead the confusion method using pheromones.
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