Schnabel-Ermihof

At Schnabel-Ermihof in southern Styria, on the Sausal island hill near Kitzeck, winegrowing becomes a radical form of farming continuity. Karl and Eva Schnabel have led the family estate since 1998, yet organic agriculture has shaped Ermihof for generations; neither vineyard nor cellar has ever followed a conventional path.

The Sausal brings steep slopes, schist, cool elevated air and a tension that speaks through Welschriesling, Morillon, Sauvignon Blanc and red varieties. The vines are farmed organically, and the wines are made as natural wines without technical smoothing, with no added sulphur since 1998.

Schnabel-Ermihof is not a fashionable natural-wine label, but a conviction. Spontaneous fermentation, time, low intervention and living texture form the language of a farm that does not polish southern Styrian landscape, but translates it directly and vividly.

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