This also applies to the business of the Fischer family in St. Anna am Aigen. There, the siblings Claudia, Klaus and Bernhard grew up with the rural lifestyle from childhood. A small mixed farm with animals, farmland, crops and 3 acres of vineyards. It soon became clear that the children did not want to continue the traditional form of a farm in this form. The older brother (Klaus) somehow had the wine bacillus in his genes and so his path led him to the viticulture school in Silberberg. After graduating there, he added further wine training at the Klosterneuburg School of Oenology. He then gained his practical experience in South Africa and New Zealand in order to produce his first wine, the Morillon St. Anna, in 2007.
Sister Claudia, in turn, practiced at the regional vinotheque in St. Anna am Aigen and made a career as the Styrian wine sovereign. She gained a lot of vinophile experience beyond national borders. The third in the group, Bernhard, decided to follow the path of his older brother and also went from Silberberg to South Africa via Klosterneuburg. He is currently still studying at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences and brings his knowledge of the cycle of nature to the family business. In the meantime, the small, organically certified winery has grown to 4.5 hectares and is run as a sideline. However, the declared goal is to become a full operation and for this some vineyard areas will probably be needed. The noble wine is recommended as a start to enjoying wine. A wine designation in homage to the former servant Hermann. After the war, the grandmother’s cousin came to the farm as a farm hand and led a simple but good life. From time to time he unpacked the “Styrian” harmonica, puffed on the pipe with relish and wished for a fine wine. And this is how the wine presents itself. A cuvée with Welschriesling and the PiWi variety Muscaris: simple and good! Physiologically ripe grapes are harvested for the Morillon and Sauvignon Blanc local wines. Fermentation is carried out exclusively with natural spontaneous yeasts and the development of the wine is accompanied as much as possible in the cellar and intervention is carried out as little as possible. The result is balanced wines with medium aging potential for the next 5 years and universal food companions. The flagship wines of the house are the Morillon from Riede Schemming and the Riesling Ried Stradenberg. The Riesling, as an expressive representative of the variety, is spontaneously fermented, like all other wines, then matured on the fine lees for a long time and matured in large oak barrels.
The long-distance runner among the Fischer wines is probably the Morillon Ried Schemming. On the former coral reef, the vines are rooted deep in the ground and deliver the chalky taste potential that the Burgundy varieties especially love. A close-meshed, puristic, very elegant wine with long storage potential. All in all: The Fischer siblings do an excellent job of bringing the potential of the Vulkanland into the bottle and it will be very exciting to follow the further development of the motivated winegrowers.
Source: Nachrichten
