Hirtzberger Franz

Hirtzberger Franz, Austria - Wachau

The Hirtzberger winery is an icon of the Austrian wine industry. A family business where the young generation, actively supported by their parents, presses the greatest Grüner Veltliners and Rieslings with a steady hand year after year. The Hirtzberger family's range is too large or our structure too small to include all the wines in our range, even if each one deserved it. So we decided on four wines: Axpoint and Honivogl for the Veltliners and Hochrain and the legendary Singerriedel for the Rieslings. All of these wines have sensational ageing potential and Jancis Robinson even says that the Grüner Veltliner can compete with the great white Burgundies. It's nice that the English have now found this out too ...