Club Batonnage
In Burgenland’s Seewinkel, at Andau on Lake Neusiedl, Club Batonnage stands for a rare alliance of Austrian wine minds. Born from a hedonistic summer night in 2001, the project turned friendship into a vinous manifesto, shaped by Markus Altenburger, Florian Gayer, Gerhard Kracher, Erich Scheiblhofer and Christian Tschida.Its name refers to stirring the lees, yet the idea was always larger: to stir Austria’s wine scene itself. Blaufränkisch and Cabernet Sauvignon from sparse, mineral parcels around Jois meet Merlot from the Ried Prädium in Andau. Cold maceration, meticulous hand selection and two times twelve months in new French barriques – a true double-oak regime – define the craft.
Under the warm Pannonian influence of Burgenland, this is less a conventional estate than a deliberately scarce club wine project: bold in concept, disciplined in execution, unmistakably rooted in place.
Club Batonnage
In Burgenland’s Seewinkel, at Andau on Lake Neusiedl, Club Batonnage stands for a rare alliance of Austrian wine minds. Born from a hedonistic summer night in 2001, the project turned friendship into a vinous manifesto, shaped by Markus Altenburger, Florian Gayer, Gerhard Kracher, Erich Scheiblhofer and Christian Tschida.Its name refers to stirring the lees, yet the idea was always larger: to stir Austria’s wine scene itself. Blaufränkisch and Cabernet Sauvignon from sparse, mineral parcels around Jois meet Merlot from the Ried Prädium in Andau. Cold maceration, meticulous hand selection and two times twelve months in new French barriques – a true double-oak regime – define the craft.
Under the warm Pannonian influence of Burgenland, this is less a conventional estate than a deliberately scarce club wine project: bold in concept, disciplined in execution, unmistakably rooted in place.
