We produce our sparkling wines entirely in-house – from grape to finished bottle. Hand harvesting, whole-cluster pressing, and the exclusive use of the first pressing juice form the foundation of our base wines for Sekt.
Since 2007, we’ve been producing our own line of sparkling wines in the heart of the untouched Weinviertel countryside.
Our carefully tended, organically farmed vineyards provide the perfect foundation for the high quality of our Sekts. What begins in the vineyard continues in the cellar.
The grapes are processed in the cellar with the same dedication, creating the base wine for our sparkling wines. As one of the few wineries in Austria with its own sparkling wine production facility, we are constantly expanding and refining our range to achieve even greater quality.
All of our sparkling wines are made exclusively using the traditional method – bottle fermentation. This process requires time and dedication. After producing the base wine, it is bottled together with the tirage to initiate the second fermentation inside the bottle.
The Sekt is then aged on the lees, which gives it its incomparable flavor. The length of this maturation determines the category in which it will later be classified within the Austrian Sekt pyramid. During the final two weeks, the bottles are placed on riddling racks to move the lees into the neck of the bottle. Then comes disgorgement!
Of course, this also takes place in Martinsdorf – personally by Peter Schöfmann at the estate. During disgorgement, the lees are removed, the Sekt is topped up with its dosage, and corked. Each Sekt has its own unique dosage, created in a prior tasting.
The Sekt Austria Pyramid is designed to help both consumers and professionals in the sparkling wine industry make informed purchasing decisions. At the end of January 2022, a new regulation came into effect, officially establishing the designation for Austrian sparkling wine with protected designation of origin (PDO) as “Sekt Austria” – represented by the pyramid structure with the categories “Sekt Austria,” “Sekt Austria Reserve,” and “Sekt Austria Große Reserve.”
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