As a phrase to describe  Birgit, one could say she is a serious free-spirit. A very thoughtful person, she reads poetry (her cuvée Anna Blume is titled after her favorite poem), but as one can see from her website that this is not a typical website (I can’t say that any other vigneron or vigneronne I know of has quoted shoe size on their site. This could, however, be important – for some of her red wines she does the pigeage herself).

Birgit’s vines and 280 year-old cellar are in Göttlesbrunn, the center of the Carnuntum wine region. This appellation, taken from the eponymous Roman city that was located only a few kilometres from present day Göttlesbrunn, is rapidly becoming discovered as a very fine terroir in its own right. It sits only a few kilometres from Leithaberg and the more famous region of Neusiedlersee. The soil here is predominantly limestone/clay, which is not dissimilar to Burgundy from a geological standpoint.

Birgit’s Anna Blume is 100% Harslevelu, an ancient Austro-Hungarian variety, which she has planted (over-grafted) on a .5 ha parcel. Birgit is very committed to reviving these older varieties.