Wenzel Michael
On the shores of Lake Neusiedl in Rust, Burgenland, Wenzel Michael champions a grape many had written off: Furmint. From a town once famed for Ruster Ausbruch, the family has grown vines for generations, and in the 1980s—under the Iron Curtain’s shadow—they brought historic Furmint material back to Austria to reframe local identity.
Vines rooted in quartz, gneiss and mica schist deliver tension and line. The cellar stays deliberately quiet: hand harvesting, spontaneous fermentations, time on full lees, unfiltered bottlings and only minimal sulphur. Blaufränkisch and Pinot Noir follow the same uncompromising, low-intervention grammar.
The result is terroir-led precision—alive, structured and built on patience rather than cosmetics, with depth that comes from leaving room for the place to speak.Wenzel Michael
On the shores of Lake Neusiedl in Rust, Burgenland, Wenzel Michael champions a grape many had written off: Furmint. From a town once famed for Ruster Ausbruch, the family has grown vines for generations, and in the 1980s—under the Iron Curtain’s shadow—they brought historic Furmint material back to Austria to reframe local identity.
Vines rooted in quartz, gneiss and mica schist deliver tension and line. The cellar stays deliberately quiet: hand harvesting, spontaneous fermentations, time on full lees, unfiltered bottlings and only minimal sulphur. Blaufränkisch and Pinot Noir follow the same uncompromising, low-intervention grammar.
The result is terroir-led precision—alive, structured and built on patience rather than cosmetics, with depth that comes from leaving room for the place to speak.
