The Schandl family is fully committed to rosé, which has enjoyed great success as Rosalia DAC Rosé since 2023. After all, high-quality rosé wines have always been produced in Pöttelsdorf, mainly from the leading variety of the wine region, Blaufränkisch, which achieves a grandiose quality here.
House of Rosé
The rosé wines from Pöttelsdorf are not only enjoying increasing popularity among wine connoisseurs, the Schandls and their cellar master Markus Kurz were also recently able to achieve one of the highest ratings for rosé wines. At Meininger's International Rosé Award, the winery (still known as Domaine Pöttelsdorf) was honoured as ‘Best Rosé Producer Austria 2024’.
An eventful family history
The Schandl family pressed wine themselves for almost 100 years until 1956, when they supplied their grapes to the newly founded Pöttelsdorf winegrowers' co-operative. Pöttelsdorf wines were popular in Austria and beyond under the ‘Fürst Bismarck’ brand. In the 1980s, Walter Schandl increasingly leased and bought vineyards, and in 1992 his son Thomas began to press some of his own grapes again. Success grew, and in 1995 Thomas and his wife Gabi opened the ‘Stegschandl’ restaurant. In 2009, the Schandl family and partners took over the winery of the now financially ailing cooperative and re-established the brand as ‘Domaine Pöttelsdorf’. The next step followed in 2024: the Schandls founded ‘Schandl's Weingut’ and specialised as the ‘House of Rosé’.
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