Vintage 2025

Our Souvignier gris 2025 comes from Ried Steinhäufel in Leobersdorf. The variety is a PIWI, meaning it resists fungal diseases. In Austria, July 2025 was cool and rainy. We made it sweet (lieblich): 22,7 grams of residual sugar per litre meet 6,4 grams of acidity, and the grapes were picked at 20 °KMW. There are 1.000 litres.

Ried Steinhäufel

The grapes for Souvignier gris 2025 grow in the Ried Steinhäufel vineyard in Leobersdorf. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.

How we care for the soil

The 2025 harvest

The must for Souvignier gris 2025 measured 20 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

What the figures say

Souvignier gris 2025 has 12 % vol. alcohol, 22.7 g/l residual sugar and 6.4 g/l acidity. It is made in a medium sweet style, which under wine law means more residual sugar than medium dry, but no more than 45 g/l.

The sugar-free extract of Souvignier gris 2025 is 20.4 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 40 mg/l free and 135 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 327 kJ or 78 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 17199/26 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

Vintage 2022

Souvignier gris is a PIWI, a variety that stands up well to fungal disease. Ours grows in Ried Steinhäufel in Leobersdorf, and we picked the 2022 on 24 September. It's made in a sweet style, with 24,6 grams of residual sugar carried by 6,5 grams of acidity. In the glass, gentle spicy fruit and the scent of melon.

The batch is 1.800 litres. At competitions the Souvignier gris 2022 collected gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2024 and 90 points in the Weißwein Guide Austria 2023.

Ried Steinhäufel

The grapes for Souvignier gris 2022 grow in the Ried Steinhäufel vineyard in Leobersdorf. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.

View the vineyard site on riedenkarten.at

How we care for the soil

The 2022 harvest

The must for Souvignier gris 2022 measured 21 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

Awards

What the figures say

Souvignier gris 2022 has 13.0 % vol. alcohol, 24.6 g/l residual sugar and 6.5 g/l acidity. It is made in a medium sweet style, which under wine law means more residual sugar than medium dry, but no more than 45 g/l.

The sugar-free extract of Souvignier gris 2022 is 16.5 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 40 mg/l free and 122 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 356 kJ or 86 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 17108/23 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

How we describe it

PIWI variety, gentle fruit spice & melon aroma.

The Classic line

Souvignier gris 2022 belongs to our Classic line: true-to-variety wines that are enjoyable while young. It rests on the full lees until December and on the fine lees until March, without malolactic conversion.

Classic winemaking step by step

Vintage 2021

The 2021 Souvignier gris has all been drunk, there were 1.900 litres. We made this PIWI variety in a medium-sweet style: 24,6 grams of residual sugar meet 6,6 grams of acidity per litre. Spring 2021 was cool, and Austria had no late frosts. At competitions the Souvignier gris 2021 collected gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards and silver at AWC Vienna.

The 2021 harvest

The must for Souvignier gris 2021 measured 22 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

Awards

What the figures say

Souvignier gris 2021 has 13.6 % vol. alcohol, 24.6 g/l residual sugar and 6.6 g/l acidity. It is made in a medium sweet style, which under wine law means more residual sugar than medium dry, but no more than 45 g/l.

The sugar-free extract of Souvignier gris 2021 is 19.3 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 52 mg/l free and 125 mg/l total sulphur. It received the official inspection number N 14345/22 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

Vintage 2020

The 2020 Souvignier gris is no longer available at the winery, the 1.200 litres have all been drunk. The page stays anyway, because the wine belongs to us. Souvignier gris is a fungus-resistant variety, a PIWI. We made this vintage in a medium-sweet style: 25,1 grams of residual sugar per litre are balanced by 6,2 grams of acidity; the grapes had 22 °KMW. In Austria the 2020 harvest was set to start later than in previous years, with the main harvest expected for late September and early October. Anyone who still has a bottle in the cellar can look forward to it.

The 2020 harvest

The must for Souvignier gris 2020 measured 22 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

Awards

What the figures say

Souvignier gris 2020 has 13.4 % vol. alcohol, 25.1 g/l residual sugar and 6.2 g/l acidity. It is made in a medium sweet style, which under wine law means more residual sugar than medium dry, but no more than 45 g/l.

The sugar-free extract of Souvignier gris 2020 is 21.4 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 49 mg/l free and 138 mg/l total sulphur. It received the official inspection number N 09400/21 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.