2018 For Friends Only & Vouchers for 1 person to Participate at Harvest including 6 bottles of wine from - Wachau harvested - 6 x 0.75L & 1x 1.5L - Wachau

Spend a day helping with the grape harvest and 6 bottles of the wine you have harvested yourself plus Magnum "For Friends Only", Grüner Veltliner Smaragd.
Your chance to become a winemaker for a day, and participate in the harvest, and when the wine is bottled you get 6 bottles of what you harvested.

Here is your host, Erich Machherndl:
I am a trained medical technician and took over the winery as a career changer in 1998. After a few years of inner turmoil, I have been concentrating exclusively on the winery since 2002. And today I can't imagine it any other way.

Of course, I have great visions. I want to be recognizable with my signature and be one of the best here. I also want to help shape the region a little. And I want to work as close to nature as possible. Because our soil is our treasure. We draw our wines and our livelihood from it. It is important to preserve it.
And I do that with dedication. That's why I decided to go organic. It's so logical!
Making wine itself gives me an almost childlike joy. So much so that I want to infect others with my enthusiasm and my wines.


Wösendorf on the Danube is an idyllic and typical Wachau town with narrow winding lanes, a small uneven church square, and old winemaker’s houses. When you stand in front of our large old wooden gate, you might expect to find a medieval courtyard typical of the region behind it. But far from it. Next to the old building stands a modern, light-flooded structure made of glass and concrete – a contemporary living space and winery in one. A place to linger.

And just as with our buildings, we approach winemaking: the tradition of our fathers paired with a forward-looking, modern approach.

Old established experience & contemporary execution. Wooden vats & stainless steel tanks. From traditional winemaking to conventional viticulture, back to the roots of organic cultivation. Organic is logical!

We are delighted to announce that, with the 2018 vintage, we have completed organic certification for all of our wines.

GRÜNER VELTLINER
SMARAGD "FOR FRIENDS ONLY"

The very first nasal contact justifies the friendly wine title: this is the finest juice of the vine, reserved for even finer friendships—certainly not for philistines, freeloaders, or time-wasters. Time here is meant to be well spent together, savoring and exploring this complex, multi-layered liquid creation. It reveals the aromatic virtuosity of the variety and its ripeness, ranging from noble orchard fruits, Tarte Tatin, pineapple, kiwi, greengage, and plums to chestnut cream. With its baroque richness, dense texture, and a salty-mineral acidity, this wine offers a harmonious combination of soprano and tenor, and it lingers as long as a Wagner opera or a truly special friendship.