Stift Göttweig 'Messwein' Grüner Veltliner 2023

Winemaker Fritz Miesbauer is the newly crowned Falstaff Magazine '2020 Winemaker of the Year. ' This is the leading winemaker award in Australia and this year is a little different as Fritz is head honcho at BOTH Weingut Stadt Krems and Stift Göttweig. How he had time to excel at both sites???

Like Stadt Krems, Stift Göttweig is another exceptional story. The Benedictine abbey stands proudly across from Krems on the south bank of the Danube. Monks have been cultivating wine on its 26 hectares of vineyards for almost 900 years. Winegrowing was first outsourced in the 1980s, and in 2006 a consortium of wine-lovers assumed responsibility for cultivation, handing the reins to Fritz. He has repaid the faith of his particularly devout partners in no short measure.