Weingut Kodolitsch: Sauvignon Blanc Excellence from Styria, Austria | Cool Climate Wine Summit

I also had the feeling that, especially from the Styria producer side, it was very... you fit into the market, as you say.

I really also feel it like here at Vierwinum.

I mean, you can taste so much like Austrian wine here.

But Styria, I mean, you always call yourself Vulkanland Steiermark, right? So the volcanic country of Styria.

Yes.

Because you have volcanic soil, because you have... very harsh climate actually for Austrian circumstances,

right? Yeah, so in Styria we are not that typical type of wine region in Austria.

So when you see here, Styria is the wine region most in the south of Austria, but we are the nearest to the Alps.

So that's totally crazy.

We are in the south, but we are the coolest region in Austria.

So that's really cool.

That's also why we are focused on our aromatic grape varieties like Sauvignon Blanc, Gelbe Muscatella.

And in our winery, we also have a lot of Riesling.

And we love to work with Riesling.

We have 25% of our whole wineries planted with Riesling.

That's not typical for Styrian, but very typical for Styrian.

Very untypical for Austria, because I think only 4% of the Austrian production is Riesling.

So you really outperform that.

Yes, but all of us, we love to drink wine.

And when you are a bit in this wine game, when you talk about wine, you will have Chardonnay from Burgundy, you will have sparkling wines from maybe from Champagne, and the best Riesling from Germany.

And we have the same soil conditions, so we work with Slade, and we have the same soil conditions than the best winemakers for Riesling in Austria and Germany.

And when we talk about Styrian wine, you have to talk about Chardonnay, you have to talk about Sauvignon Blanc, you have to talk about Welsh Riesling.

Very good.

Nobody talks about it.

Unfortunately, because it's an amazing grape variety.