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Weingut Ingrid Groiss
At A Glance
Weingut Ingrid Groiss is a small family estate in Breitenwaida, in Austria’s Weinviertel. Ingrid Groiss has led her parents’ business since 2010, farming organically since 2016 and building the range around Grüner Veltliner: regional Weinviertel bottles alongside four single-vineyard wines from vines averaging 50 years or more.
The Producer
Groiss works with vineyards inherited from both sides of her family after studying winemaking at Universität für Bodenkultur. That family history brings several vineyard areas into one cellar: Haugsdorf in the Pulkautal, Breitenwaida and Fahndorf near Ziersdorf. Grüner Veltliner is the central grape, so the estate can show it at two scales: a regional Weinviertel wine and wines tied to individual sites.
The work remains visibly family-sized. Ingrid leads the estate, her father helps with tractor work and her mother assists in the vineyards. The consequence is not a large catalogue of unrelated labels, but a compact range shaped around grape variety, vintage and vineyard origin.
Place
Breitenwaida sits in the Weinviertel of Lower Austria, where Grüner Veltliner has a formal regional expression in Weinviertel DAC. On a DAC Grüner label, the wine must be clean and crisp, show peppery spice, carry at least 12% alcohol and have no oak character. Those rules give the regional bottling a useful frame: dry fruit, fresh acidity and a white-pepper finish rather than wood flavour.
Groiss’s vineyard holdings extend beyond the home village to Haugsdorf and Fahndorf. That spread matters because the estate does not treat every Grüner as the same wine: the regional bottling presents a Weinviertel style, while the single-vineyard wines isolate older-vine material from particular places.
Soil And Site
At Fahndorf, 50-year-old vines grow in poor conglomerate and gravel soils containing white quartz and sandstone. These are physical limits rather than decorative details: the old vines and lean ground form the setting for the estate’s site-focused wines, which are kept separate from the regional bottlings.
Four single-vineyard wines come from vines averaging 50 years or more. Their role is to put named vineyard material beside the broader regional Grüner, allowing grape variety, vintage and site to register at different scales in the glass.
Story
Ingrid Groiss took over her parents’ business in 2010 after deciding to continue the family tradition. Her training and inherited vineyards supplied both the practical background and the land base; her next decision was to narrow the range toward wines intended to reflect grape variety, site and vintage.
In 2016, she converted the vineyards to organic farming. The change sits alongside a more focused wine programme: regional wines establish the Weinviertel frame, while older-vine single-vineyard wines make room for individual parcels. Riesling, Gemischter Satz and a Pinot Noir–Zweigelt rosé broaden the cellar without displacing Grüner Veltliner from the centre.
Vineyards And Cellar
Organic farming has been the estate practice since 2016, across vineyards in Haugsdorf, Breitenwaida and Fahndorf. With Ingrid directing the estate and her parents still working in the vines and with the tractor, fruit comes from a family-held patchwork rather than one continuous block.
In the cellar, the range is deliberately narrowed toward wines that show vintage, grape and site. For the regional Grüner, Weinviertel DAC’s no-oak character keeps the result focused on acidity, fruit and peppery spice; the older-vine single-vineyard wines provide the more localised counterpoint.
Wines
The range begins with regional Grüner Veltliner and rises into four single-vineyard wines from older vines. Groiss Grüner Veltliner Braitenpuechtorff is the documented named single-vineyard example: a bottle to approach as a distinct vineyard expression, rather than simply a richer version of the regional wine.
The 2025 regional Grüner Veltliner carries the clearest documented flavour picture: citrus and grapefruit fruit, with white pepper, herbs and flowers. Riesling and Gemischter Satz add further white-wine routes through the estate, while the rosé combines Pinot Noir and Zweigelt. The architecture stays coherent because each wine remains attached to variety, vintage or site.
In The Glass
The regional 2025 Grüner opens on citrus and grapefruit, then moves toward white pepper, herbs and flowers. On the palate, its dry, crisp shape follows the Weinviertel DAC style: fresh acidity carries the fruit, pepper adds savoury lift, and the finish is free from overt oak character.
This is Grüner Veltliner in a clean regional register rather than a heavy white wine. The flavour sequence moves from bright fruit to herbal and peppery notes, with acidity keeping the body lively through the finish.
A Bottle To Understand It
Start with Ingrid Groiss Grüner Veltliner 2025. It is the regional Weinviertel expression with the fullest documented picture: citrus and grapefruit, white pepper, herbs and flowers, held in a dry, crisp style without oak character. It introduces the estate’s central grape before the named single-vineyard wines ask for closer attention to older vines and individual sites.
Anecdote
In 2010, Ingrid Groiss took charge of her parents’ family business after studying winemaking at Universität für Bodenkultur and deciding to continue the family tradition. The vineyards she brought into the estate came from both sides of her family. Her father remained involved with tractor work and her mother continued to assist in the vineyards while Ingrid led the winery. Six years later, in 2016, the vineyards were converted to organic farming. The estate now works vineyards in Breitenwaida, Haugsdorf in the Pulkautal and Fahndorf near Ziersdorf, with Ingrid at the head of the family operation.
Final Word
Look first for the regional Grüner Veltliner when the appeal is citrus fruit, pepper, herbs and dry freshness. Then move to a named single-vineyard wine such as Braitenpuechtorff to follow the same estate from Weinviertel-wide expression to older-vine site detail.
Sources
- http://www.ingrid-groiss.at/
- http://www.ingrid-groiss.at/weingut.html
- http://www.ingrid-groiss.at/winzerin.html
- https://www.vineyardbrands.com/producer.aspx?id=166
- https://www.falstaff.com/nordics/wineries/weingut-ingrid-groiss
- https://www.vinmonopolet.no/Land/%C3%98sterrike/Nieder%C3%B6sterreich/Weinviertel/Ingrid-Groiss-Gr%C3%BCner-Veltliner-2025/p/17071401