Weingut Bründlmayer

During the award ceremony of the Vinaria Trophies 2024 in the newly renovated Austrian Parliament, Weingut Bründlmayer had the pleasure of receiving gold, silver, and bronze in the category of matured nobel sweet wines. Willi Bründlmayer shared the 2nd and 3rd podium places with colleagues from Burgenland and Styria, while the top spot remained solely reserved for the incomparably fresh and savoury Chardonnay Trockenbeerenauslese 2013.

Category "Gereifte Prädikatsweine“:

1. 2013 TBA Chardonnay, Weingut Bründlmayer, Langenlois
2. 2013 BA Grüner Veltliner Langenloiser Spiegel, Weingut Bründlmayer, Langenlois
3. 2013 TBA Traminer Große Cuvée Kaltenegg, Weingut Stefan Potzinger, Gabersdorf
4. 2013 BA Riesling Zöbinger Heiligenstein, Weingut Bründlmayer, Langenlois
5. 2014 TBA Sauvignon Blanc, Weingut Kollwentz, Großhöflein

10 Years After...

Willi Bründlmayer is renowned worldwide for the best Grüner Veltliner, finest Riesling, and outstanding sparkling wines made with the traditional method. Moreover, he continues to delight wine connoisseurs with masterful, elegant red wines. These wine connoisseurs also know that in exceptional years, Bründlmayer's top vineyards in Kamptal produce noble sweet treasures that seek their equals in charm, freshness, concentration, and delicate elegance.

“Great noble sweet wines can also be recognized in their youth, but they develop their own charisma only after many years of aging in the cellar and bottle,” says Willi Bründlmayer. "In 2013, we harvested our best Chardonnay plots very late and in a first pass, only took the 100% Botrytis-free grapes for our dry Chardonnay. We hoped that the remaining grapes, already slightly touched by noble rot, would quickly dry further. They did indeed, but not too quickly and with only a very slight increase in the finest Botrytis. Our traditional harvest closing party in 2013 was also our Christmas dinner because we didn't finish picking the late harvest grapes until mid-December." In the end, we received a wonderful lot of ‘Auslesen,’ some great ‘Beerenauslesen’ and only one small cask of perfectly concentrated and balanced Chardonnay TBA.

In November 2017, chief editor Peter Moser described our Chardonnay TBA 2013 in "Falstaff" as follows:

"Medium yellow-green, silver reflections. Intense yellow tropical fruit, a hint of passion fruit and papaya, yellow peach, citrus zest. Juicy, complex, fine fruit sweetness, acidity backbone full of finesse, pleasant touch of honey in the finish."

Of course, this delicious wine has continued to benefit from each additional year of aging since 2017, gradually approaching its peak, which it has still not yet reached by far...