The internationally renowned vintner FRITZ WIENINGER can be described as a pioneer of new Viennese viniculture. It is largely due to his efforts that Viennese wine now enjoys such a good reputation and great demand.

In the 1980s, he took over an approximately 100-year-old winery from his parents at the base of Bisamberg in STAMMERSDORF, which until that time had been run purely as a “heurigen” (tavern) business. Right from the start he shifted production to quality wines, experimented with new varieties, brought in improvements such as temperature-controlled fermentation on the one hand, but also barrique expansion on the other, thereby turning the cozy image of Vienna “inside-out.” As a vintner “from the other side,” from transdanubian Stammersdorf, Wieninger entered into the heart of the old-Viennese viniculture and now manages vineyards on both Bisamberg and Nussberg.

“I try to use the diversity of my material, the grapes. For me, the most horrible thing is uniform wine” is Wieninger’s credo. “Bringing into the bottle the differences in soil and vintage, the characteristics of the vineyard, is what I see as my greatest challenge.”