Franz Reinhard Weninger, born in 1979, grew up on his parents' wine estate in central Burgenland, Austria, only a few kilometres from the lake Ferto, close enough to the wine. In Horitschon he not only learned the art of making wine from his father, but in doing so also discovered his great passion. After graduating from enology school in Klosterneuburg, he did internships at Schloss Sallegg (Italy), Kendall-Jackson's Vinwood Cellars, California (USA), and the Mundrakoona Estate (Australia). In 2000, having come closer to wine, he sought the geographic proximity and took over as enological and organizational director of the Balf estate near Sopron.
The unique touch to his wine comes from bringing together the forces of nature. Franz Reinhard Weninger only intervenes if absolutely necessary. He tries to enhance the natural processes in the vineyard and the wine cellar, not to implement radical changes. In this way he manages to draw the soil characteristics, the terroir, into the wine as purely and as simply as possible. The Weninger family had already been operating according to strict principles for quite some time, since 2006 the biodynamic method of cultivation at the winery in Balf has been monitored by Biokontroll Ungarn.
Wines:
|