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Fine Austrian Wine
Keringer Mönchhof
Award-winning wines from Austria Robert and Marietta Keringer produce award-winning wines on their traditional family estate in the Austrian Burgenland. While the vintners are red wine specialists, they grow whites too – turning their hand to new varieties as well as well-known grapes. TEXT: JESSICA HOLZHAUSEN | PHOTOS: FOTO HELMREICH
Last year saw Keringer crowned the “Best National Producer – Austria 2013” at the AWC (Austrian Wine Challenge) inVienna, a competition in which 1,847 winemakers from 39 countries sent in their wines to be tested. Even more recently, Robert and Marietta Keringer achieved outstanding success at the Berlin Wine Trophy, one of the
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most important international wine tastings in Germany. At the event in March 2014, the couple won“Großes Gold”(Great Gold) for their 2010 Eiswein Traminer, seven gold medals and four silver medals. To top off these achievements, the wine testing jury also crownedVineyard Keringer “best Austrian wine producer”. Receiving this special
award for the fourth time (2014, 2011, 2010 and 2008) is testament to the great quality of the Keringer wines. The success of Keringer wines crosses Europe and spans Asia. In 2013 the Deajon Wine Trophy was held for the first time in South Korea. Here, four of Robert