Winery Story
The respected wine magazine Falstaff recently featured Heinz Velich as its cover story, and his dry white and dessert wines are the reason w... (more...)hy. Velich's planted only white wine grapes in his vineyard (45% Chardonnay, 45% Welschriesling, and 10% split between Muskat-Ottonel and Bouvier); it yields an annual production of 5000 cases (75% dry white, 25% sweet). The village is surrounded by many small ponds which create the microclimate magic here: they act as reflectors, beaming the sunlight onto the vines, ripening the grapes fat and full.
