The Wine... Bründlmayer is a traditionalist in many ways. The wines here age in deep, cold cellars. This estate offers us a textbook example of appropriate use of wood. The wines are affected but not excessively flavored by their time in cask. They change into a more wine-like substance, rounder, deeper, more interesting. All vineyard work is performed according to organic principles, meaning no chemical fertilizers, herbicides, or chemical sprays.

The Land... One of the least mentioned aspects of terroir is the human that works the vines. Willi Bründlmayer has a clear perspective on what makes for quality wine in the fields surrounding his native Langenlois. His vineyard sites are a mixture of rocky, dry hillside sites that drain well while ably collecting sunlight to provide wines of a fuller, riper texture, and more fertile, calcareous vineyards closer to sea level that can naturally possess a fine chalky minerality, a soil characteristic that keeps wine from being one-dimensionally fruity.