Region: Austria
Grapes: Riesling
Alcohol: 12.5%
Notes on the Wine
Crisp pears on the nose with a touch of minerality leading to a tart, white pepper, grapefruit, and lemon palate. The back is short with a sour coating that complements the vanilla wisp.
Notes on the Producer
The winery Mantlerhof is situated in the municipality of Gedersdorf, close to the river Kamp right before it merges with the Danube. In the west one may see the lights of the city Krems, east one may glimpse the towers of Grafenegg.
If you draw closer to the traditional winery you’ll arrive at the village center of Brunn im Felde. In the midst of this village lies a lovely pond, at the western side of this pond is an old manor with an early classicist facade. This old manor is called “Mantlerhof” a small family owned winery with long history. Family Mantler worked the Mantlerhof for over 200 years and roots it’s winemaking hertiage back till 1365.
We work 15ha of vineyards, where we produce long-lasting organic wines. Our focus lies on Grüner Veltliner and Roter Veltliner. We do also produce Riesling and Neuburger, both varieties we are very passionate about.We also tend to 70ha of agriculture.
The plains of the Danube and Kamp rivers are limited to the north by a Löss ridge of hills . Through centuries of wineproduction these hills were shapped into terraces. There are also vineyards at the fringes of the plain at the foot of the terraces and at the higplateau above them.
Originally the Mantlerhof was a monasterial farmbuilding adherent to the styrian monastery of Admont. It wasn’t worked by monks but by regular farmers. In 1571 the monastery sold their possesions in the surroundings of Krems to Baron Bernhard Thurso for 453 fl.
After frequent changes in ownership over the next 300 years Johann Georg Mantler decided together with his wife Maria to buy it in 1815. He than worked the now newly named Mantlerhof as a traditional farm, including meadows, fields, rabbits, chicken, ducks, pigs, cattle and wine.
A strong emphasis was made when Josef Mantler decided to plant a vineyard on the highplateau in the than controversial “Lenz-Moser Hochkultur”-System just a few months after taking over the winery. This promptly sparked a fight with his mother: the high plateau was traditionally used a communal pasture and had a reputation as a bad sight for vines. The next decades till the 1970s were used to modernize all the vineyards into the new Lenz Moser-System and the construction of new terraces to allow for the use of new technologies. Most of the vineyards are situated on the terraces (~80%) the rest in the plain or on the high plateau.
The Mantlerhof is one of the oldest buildings in our local congregation. His foundations date back over 800 years. Before that a medival seat of the knights of Kuenring stood in it’s place. Originally constructed as a monasterial farm it kept the purpose as farm building throughout the ages. The last phase of construction took place during the Rokoko period which is still very visible on the fassade.
