Gober and Freinbichler "Vineyard Project 004" Blaufrankisch 2022

Gober and Freinbichler "Vineyard Project 004" Blaufrankisch 2022Vom Boden's Stephen Bitterolf launched the Vineyard Project line of his import company in 2019 as a means to "connect soulful yet overlooked vineyards with soulful growers" in Germany and Austria. The fourth rendition comes from Burgenland's Gober and Freinbichler. Domink Gober & Gerald Freinbichler met while working in the cellar of Franz Weninger, where the two honed their skills and eventually branched out to start their own winery in 2015. They

It also stems from not enough women being on the field and so we also wanted to encourage more women to do what they loved and to break away from the stigmas of winemaking not being a woman’s job

Marketing the wines this way is bound to raise a few eyebrows

he turned to a more natural and intuitive approach for his own project

It spends four days on the skins and is aged in barrel for a year before bottling

which was at one point a shallow sea

Martin and Anna Arndorfer both come from a long line of winemakers in the Kamptal and Wachau region of Austria

’ is an orange frizzante wine made from Malvasia di Candia

the labor required is far more taxing than on flatter

reminding Claus of bonsai trees

and this vintage is less funky and a little darker

utilizing biodynamic practices

Giulia and Franco run the Masiero family farm situated in the Trinté hills