Name and Address:  Weinbau Uwe Schiefer
                                    7503 Welgersdorf 3
                                    Austria
Website: www.weinbau-schiefer.at
Owner: Uwe Schiefer
Wine Maker: Uwe Schiefer

 

Concise Estate History

The Südburgenland is Austria’s smallest wine producing province and straddles the border with Hungary. There are a total of 400 hectares under vine. The finest vineyard is the 120 ha Eisenberg, a steep schistus slate hillside where Uwe Schiefer  (by coincidence the word Schiefer meaning slate in German) works now on 5 hectares. About 10 years ago, he started putting together his estate, nearly all planted to Blaufränkisch.

Overall philosophy or approach including key influences:

Schiefers principle: “Less is more” – his aim is a genuine winemaking. He produces wines in a very puristic style focusing on naturalness. This year he works in some vineyards biodynamic and wants to change all wines to biodynamic in the next years.

Vineyards acreage/hectares: 5,2 hectares

Planting ratio: old vineyards: 2.500    new vineyards: 4.800 

Technical information: Blaufrankisch Eisenberg 05, Blaufrankisch Reihburg 04