About Gols

Our family owned wine estate is situated in Gols, one of Austrias most famous and greatest wine-growing communities. Gols lies in the Burgenland (federal state) and there in the Neusiedlersee - Seewinkel wine region at the eastern shore of central Europes only steppe lake: Lake Neusiedl. At the northern rim of this region which itself forms the most western offshoot of the Hungarian lowlands stretches a huge flat gravel plate that was sedimented by the Danube river during the last ice age. On the slopes of that plate, facing Lake Neusiedl, and in the plain between both, the old vineyards of Gols are located.

Aside from its long history in winemaking Gols is nowadays well known all around the world by virtue of the great wines that grow here. Gols is home to more than 100 wine estates and wines from our hometown can constantly be found at the highest ranks of many international wine competitions. Another remarkable fact which is also valid for the rest of Austria is that wine-growing has always been and still is almost entierely a family business. Therefore the size of a typical Austrian winery is relatively small when compared internationally, meaning that the production volumes of individual wines are too. But this special characteristic gives us the possibility to devote our full attention to our products, taking individual care of every single wine and therefore reach the highest possible qualities. This is an unbeatable advantage that we have over bigger companies which utilize more industrialized wine production methods and we are very aware of it. Of course this also manifests in our winemaking philosophy

In Gols white, red and dessert wines share a long history. In recent years the favourable climate conditions of the area around Lake Neusiedl naturally lead to the fact that wines which profit from very ripe grapes get most of the attention now. This means that Gols has become most famous for great red wines as well as rich white and high-grade dessert wines. Still light and fresh whites can be found too and are highly valued throughout Austria and neighbouring countries.