"Subtle apple and pear notes with a herbal thyme twist, a very easygoing style with restrained acidity."
The property at Herrenhof-Lamprecht used to farm cows, pigs and then apples before Gottfried Lamprecht took over from his father and created the winery on his family’s 9ha farm in Styria, southern Austria. The estate is sited around the perfect rolling hill of his Buchertberg® vineyard (yes it’s a registered trademark), littered with the prized opok soils, sloping southwards just outside the farmhouse.
Gottfried makes enthralling wines using an approach that many would call natural, but he would call “handcrafted”. Organics with some biodynamic practices, but he staunchly doesn't "believe in earth ghosts" or following Steiner's philosophies word for word. “I am a huge part of the terroir too. It’s there, but I don’t talk about it. It’s my vision” Gottfreid explains.
There’s edges and sparks across Gottfried’s wines, they’re so very much alive, and brimming with energy, yet manage to lean away from funk, and into concentration, structure, and a certain aristocratic grace and balance.
