Winzer Familie Gregor Schup, Pinot Noir, 2016, Thermenregion, Austria

This Austrian family has been making wine since before your great-gran was born.

300 years of Schups have been perfecting Pinot on the same mountain. Their 2015 proves some families just don't know when to quit – thank god.

Deep in the heart of the Austrian Wienerwald, in the little town of Guntramsdorf, lies Winzer Familie Gregor Schup. For over 300 years they’ve lived here, where the Eastern-European climate meets warm and damp Atlantic air, learning to cultivate quality fruits from vines grown close to the Eichkogel mountain (just 367 m above sea level). The Eichkogel is a UNESCO-recognised biosphere, so the conservation and sustainability of its land and ecosystem are lawfully protected. It’s fair to say, optimising berries for exquisite wine has become almost a sixth sense to them today. They truly are perfectionists of nature. What their land yields is respected, and what‘s respected reaps big rewards. It is undoubtedly the Schup family’s respect and expertise that makes their wines so palpably unique.