Winery

Weninger

The Weninger's have shaped the modern red wine style like hardly anyone else in Burgenland. Today, Petra and Franz Weninger are considered biodynamic pioneers and produce unique wines on both sides of the border.

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‘I consider the natural wine movement to be extremely important! It brings openness and individuality back to wine.’

- Franz Weninger

Wine country 2023

winestyle-img Fresh & Juicy
Spicy
Like an embrace of strong, warmer aromas from pepper to coriander, cloves, vanilla to tobacco and leather.
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Animating
15,40 €
20,53 €/L

Franz plays with Szürke, Fehér & Kék

winestyle-img Fresh & Juicy
Floral
Like a fragrant flower meadow with notes like rose and jasmine blossoms and delicate meadow herbs.
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Juicy
17,60 €
23,47 €/L

Steiner Kékfrankos 2020

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Spicy
Like an embrace of strong, warmer aromas from pepper to coriander, cloves, vanilla to tobacco and leather.
Mineral
Like the idea of a wet stone: sometimes cool, salty, slightly smoky and mostly a tight, grippy texture on the palate. Rather a mouthfeel than aromatics.
Elegant, fine-meshed
27,50 €
36,67 €/L

Kékburgundi Pinot Noir 2022

winestyle-img Fresh & Juicy
Mineral
Like the idea of a wet stone: sometimes cool, salty, slightly smoky and mostly a tight, grippy texture on the palate. Rather a mouthfeel than aromatics.
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Fine-meshed
18,70 €
24,93 €/L

Fehérburgundi 2022

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Mineral
Like the idea of a wet stone: sometimes cool, salty, slightly smoky and mostly a tight, grippy texture on the palate. Rather a mouthfeel than aromatics.
Vegetative
Smooth, juicy
15,29 €
20,39 €/L

Rózsa Petsovits 2022

winestyle-img Fresh & Juicy
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Spicy
Like an embrace of strong, warmer aromas from pepper to coriander, cloves, vanilla to tobacco and leather.
Juicy, Structured
13,20 €
17,60 €/L

Ponzichter 2021

winestyle-img Fresh & Juicy
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Spicy
Like an embrace of strong, warmer aromas from pepper to coriander, cloves, vanilla to tobacco and leather.
Structured
11,99 €
15,99 €/L

Kékfrankos Balf 2020

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Spicy
Like an embrace of strong, warmer aromas from pepper to coriander, cloves, vanilla to tobacco and leather.
Lively, Juicy
13,09 €
17,45 €/L
Sold out

Stein Furmint 2021

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Mineral
Like the idea of a wet stone: sometimes cool, salty, slightly smoky and mostly a tight, grippy texture on the palate. Rather a mouthfeel than aromatics.
Smooth, Fine-meshed
Normal price 30,25 € Special Price 26,29 €
35,05 €/L
Sold out

Frettner Cabernet Franc 2016

winestyle-img Fine & Layered
Vegetative
Earthy
Like an energy bursting forest floor with aromas of mushrooms, moss, root vegetables but also dried aromas.
Complex, Elegant
26,00 €
34,67 €/L
Sold out

Kirchholz 2017

winestyle-img Rich & Deep
Spicy
Like an embrace of strong, warmer aromas from pepper to coriander, cloves, vanilla to tobacco and leather.
Fruity
Like a fruit basket of fresh fruit: From citrus to peach, apple, pear, to cherry, raspberry or plum.
Earthy
Like an energy bursting forest floor with aromas of mushrooms, moss, root vegetables but also dried aromas.
Intense, Elegant
23,10 €
30,80 €/L

Franz Weninger is considered a pioneer of modern red wine style in Burgenland

Alongside Blaufränkisch, Franz Weninger has a great pioneering spirit running through his veins. In conversation, you can really sense that he is driven to try things out, to question things, to find his own truths. Everything to find the special, the true or even the new.

Together with his wife Petra Gratz-Weninger, Franz Weninger has made it to the top of Austrian red wines with a focus on the Blaufränkisch grape variety. The Natural wines Weninger's wines are puristic and unadulterated, delicate, juicy and always complex and structured.

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Weninger was Mittelburgenland's first organic winegrower back in 2005

His father Franz Sr. already stood for innovation with the winery, not least through his decision to be the first winery in Central Burgenland to switch to "organic". Before Franz junior took over his parents' business in 2012, he was already responsible for the family-owned parcels on the Hungarian side in Balf near Sopron. A project that Franz Sr. entrusted to his son as a start.

Terroir with depth: Blaufränkisch from limestone and slate

Franz Weninger's wines are not loud dazzlers - they are quiet storytellers. This is particularly noticeable in his Blaufränkisch vineyards in central Burgenland. There is the "Hochäcker", for example, grown on barren limestone soil, which writes its cool precision into every glass. Or the "Saybritz" on slate, whose dark energy and fine saltiness gets under your skin.

For Weninger, Blaufränkisch is not just a grape variety, but a language - one that speaks of soil, climate and time. And this is precisely the strength of his wines from Burgenland: they do not taste of technology, but of origin. They are Austrian red wine in its most honest, clearest form - and at the same time much more than that.

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Franz Weninger: Viticulture with attitude

For Franz Weninger, organic is far from enough. He has been working biodynamically for years - with his own preparations, his own compost management and a deeper understanding of the cycles in the vineyard. The vines are grateful: they root deeper, stay healthier and produce grapes that show more expression, more character and more soul.

What sounds like philosophy on paper becomes a statement in the glass. Whether Blaufränkisch, Pinot Noir or an exciting Austrian natural wine - Weninger's signature is unmistakable. No frills, no masquerade, just wines with a backbone. For all those who want to rethink Burgenland wine.