VINEYARD INTERFACES IN THE HEART OF EUROPE NORTHBOUND JOURNEY NAME: #austrianwine | #winesummit | 23–26 May 2019 Download Catalogue, Tasting Lists & Photos: www.austrianwine.com/wine-summit Social Media & Press AUSTRIAN WINE SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS Follow us, if you love Austrian Wine as much as we do ♥ Share your favourite moments with #austrianwine and #winesummit Instagram @austrianwine | @austrianwineuk | @austrianwineusa Facebook @oesterreichwein | @austrianwine YouTube www.youtube.com/oesterreichwein EVENT PRESS KITS with specially selected information about the winegrowing country Austria. www.austrianwine.com/press-kit Preface WELCOME TO AUSTRIA! © AWMB/Anna Stöcher We are so very glad to welcome you to this lersee, Mittelburgenland and Eisenberg year’s Austrian Wine Summit, Vineyard – all adjacent to Hungary – to Vulkanland Interfaces in the Heart of Europe! Although Steiermark, bordering on Slovenia. Accre- each Wine Summit is unique, this one feels dited specialists will elucidate the historical very special to me, as it fulfils a longtime development of each border region, while dream of mine: to pay a dedicated visit to wines from our Czech, Slovakian, Hunga- some of Austria’s best vineyards – speci- rian and Slovenian friends will accompany fically, those that lie at the borders of our you throughout your visit. country; these borders that never were bor- ders until after 1918. New lines of demar- Finally, you will assemble in Vienna with cation were drawn then, which abruptly di- your colleagues from the other Wine Sum- vided excellent terroirs, leaving the parts in mit groups for a day’s conference dedica- separate countries and leading to a century ted to the history of Austrian wine. In the of widely divergent development, governed evening, we will all celebrate with a casual for many decades by essentially adversarial Heurigen party, and thus conclude your so- political regimes. journ in a convivial and congenial spirit. A spirit in which we hope that this Wine Sum- Now that our neighbouring countries live mit will be able to strengthen a sense of fel- in freedom together with us as members of lowship, helping to transform our nation’s the European Union, it’s high time to check borders into interfaces: vineyard interfaces up on what has happened wine-wise since in the heart of Europe. the 1980s, on both sides of these borders. Your itinerary will lead you from the Aus- trian-Czech border in the winegrowing re- gion Weinviertel via the imposing Baroque palace Schloss Hof near the Slovakian bor- Willi Klinger der and the winegrowing regions Neusied- MANAGING DIRECTOR, AWMB 3 Index Basic Info Route Overview ............................................................................................................... 5 Program ........................................................................................................................... 7 Historians ....................................................................................................................... 12 Facts & Figures ............................................................................................................... 16 23 May Weinviertel ...................................................................................................................... 25 Seated Tasting: "The New Austrian Sekt g.U. (PDO) Pyramid" ......................................... 27 Historical Introduction: "The Austrian-Czech Border and Its Implications for Vineyards and People" ........................................................................ 35 Walk Around Tasting and Lunch: "Weinviertel Meets Moravia" ......................................... 39 Historical Introduction: "Schloss Hof Palace in Its Historical Context, from the Great Commander Prince Eugene to Today's Touristic Attraction" ....................... 57 Seated Tasting: "Carnuntum Shakes Hands with Slovakia" ................................................ 58 Neusiedlersee .................................................................................................................. 67 Gourmet Dinner: "Burgenland Wines from Lake Neusiedl" ............................................... 69 24 May UNESCO World Heritage Safari Tour "Zicksee" ............................................................... 77 Historical Introduction: "The Bridge of Andau and Its Significance during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956" ................................................... 81 BBQ Lunch with Great Wines from Burgenland Focusing on Neusiedlersee Zweigelt ......... 82 Mittelburgenland ............................................................................................................ 93 Seated Tasting "Mittelburgenland Blaufränkisch Meets Sopron Kékfrankos" ...................... 95 Eisenberg ...................................................................................................................... 103 Gourmet Dinner with Great Wines from Burgenland Focusing on Southern Burgenland ............................................................................................... 105 25 May Historical Introduction: "The Austrian-Hungarian Border and Its Implications for Vineyards and People" ...................................................................... 114 Vulkanland Steiermark .................................................................................................. 118 Historical Introduction: "The Austrian-Slovenian Border and Its Implications for Vineyards and People" ...................................................................... 121 Lunch and Wine Bar with Wines from Steiermark ........................................................... 122 Seated Tasting: "Steiermark Ortsweine – Village Appellations" ......................................... 131 26 May – Conference Day Abstract Dr. Deckers: "An active spirit gets a footing everywhere. " The life and times of the Austrian grape-breeder and viticultural modernist Friedrich Zweigelt (1888-1964). .................................................................... 140 Abstract Prof. Dr. Vocelka: Austrian Wine History – An Introduction ............................... 141 Prof. Dr. Vocelka: The Drawing of New Borders after 1918 ............................................. 142 Walking Lunch with Wine Bars ...................................................................................... 152 Big Heurigen Party at Weingut Fuhrgassl-Huber ............................................................. 171 Addresses Participating Wineries ................................................................................................... 191 Producers of International Wines ................................................................................... 217 Restaurants & Wine Barsin Vienna ................................................................................. 220 4 Basic Info Basic Info PRAHA Route Ostrava Nürnberg Plzeň Overview Olomouc CZECH REPUBLIC Žilina České Budějovice Brno NIEDERÖSTERREICH (LOWER AUSTRIA) Banská Schrattenberg Bystrica GERMANY 2 Herrnbaumgarten 3 1 Poysdorf Augsburg Kamptal DAC Weinviertel DAC Kremstal DAC München Linz Wachau SLOVAKIA Wien Wagram WIEN Schloßhof St. Pölten 12 4 WIEN Wiener Gemischter Satz BRATISLAVADAC Traisental DAC (VIENNA) Carnuntum Thermenregion Neusiedlersee DAC Salzburg DAC EisenstadtLeithaberg Podersdorf 5 Frauenkirchen 6 7 Andau Rosalia DAC Györ AUSTRIA 8 Deutschkreutz Mittelburgenland DAC BURGENLAND BUDAPEST Innsbruck STEIERMARK (STYRIA) Vulkanland Steiermark DAC 10 EisenbergSzombathely an der Pinka Deutsch Schützen Graz 9 Eisenberg DAC HUNGARY DAC Weststeiermark Kapfenstein 11 Kecskemét Südsteiermark DAC Google Maps: ITALY SLOVENIA Pécs LJUBLJANA ZAGREB Trieste 5 Osijek Venezia CROATIA Rijeka Slavonski Brod Notes 6 VINEYARD INTERFACES IN THE HEART OF EUROPE Northbound Journey Wednesday, 22 May Arrival in Vienna and Transfer to your hotel Check-in MAXX by Steigenberger Hotel Vienna Margaretengürtel 142, 1050 Wien, T: +43 1 361 630, www.maxxhotel.com Overnight stay in Vienna Dress code for the trip: Casual (unless otherwise stated) We recommend that you bring sturdy, flat shoes and rain cover for visiting the vineyards. 7 VINEYARD INTERFACES IN THE HEART OF EUROPE Northbound Journey Thursday, 23 May 8:15 am Departure to Weinviertel (Winegrowing Region) 9:30 am Seated Tasting: "The New Austrian Sekt g.U. (PDO) Pyramid" Speakers: Annemarie Foidl (President Austrian Sommelier Union), Benedikt Zacherl (Managing Director Regional Sekt Committee) Riegelhoferkeller, Poysdorf 11:00 am Historical Introduction: "The Austrian-Czech Border and Its Implications for Vineyards and People" Speaker: Wolfgang Galler Schrattenberg 12:00 pm Walk Around Tasting and Lunch: "Weinviertel Meets Moravia" Speaker: Hans Setzer (Winegrower) Gasthaus Zum Doppeladler, Herrnbaumgarten 1:45 pm Transfer to Schloss Hof 3:00 pm Historical Introduction: "Schloss Hof Palace in Its Historical Context, from the Great Commander Prince Eugene to Today’s Touristic Attraction" Speaker: Martin Mutschlechner Schloss Hof, Schlosshof 3:30 pm Seated Tasting: "Carnuntum Shakes Hands with Slovakia" Speakers: Dorli Muhr, Philipp Grassl, Christina Artner-Netzl (all Winegrowers), Rastislav Šuták (Sommelier) Schloss Hof, Schlosshof 5:00 pm Transfer to Neusiedlersee (Winegrowing Region) and check-in hotel 7:00 pm Transfer to restaurant 7:15 pm Gourmet Dinner: "Burgenland Wines from Lake Neusiedl" Gasthaus zur Dankbarkeit, Podersdorf Dress code: Business Casual 10:00 pm Transfer to hotel Overnight