Alzinger

Weingut Alzinger is one of the most prestigious family wineries in Austria and an absolute benchmark in the Wachau, a region declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The winery is located in Unterloiben, near Dürnstein, on the banks of the Danube, in one of Europe’s most unique and demanding wine-growing areas.

The modern history of the project began in the early 1980s, when Leo Alzinger decided to bottle his own wines for the first time. Until then, the Alzinger family sold their grapes to the local cooperative, but bottling under their own label allowed them to clearly express the identity of historic vineyards such as Loibenberg and Steinertal. From that moment on, the estate’s Grüner Veltliner and Riesling wines began to stand out for their precision, minerality and ageing potential.

Today, the winery is run by Leo Alzinger Jr. together with Katharina Alzinger-Kittel. Both continue a philosophy based on manual work in extremely steep vineyards, absolute respect for the natural environment and restrained, meticulous winemaking focused on fruit purity and terroir expression. Weingut Alzinger is a member of the Vinea Wachau Nobilis Districtus association and exclusively produces white wines under the traditional Federspiel and Smaragd categories.

The vineyard covers around 10 hectares of steep terraces, mainly planted with Grüner Veltliner and Riesling, on soils composed of gneiss, schist, loess and Danube sediments. The wines are characterised by a fresh, taut and elegant style, far from opulence, and are considered among Austria’s finest and longest-lived dry white wines.