Gut Oggau

A family affair

Stephanie Tscheppe-Eselböck comes from the shores of Lake Neusiedl, her father, the chef Walter Eselböck, being one of the most renowned chefs of his generation, crowned with two stars in the famous Michelin guide. She studied at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, but it was her sister, Barbara, who took over the running of the Taubenkobel pension, south of the lake.

Eduard Tscheppe comes from a family of winegrowers in southern Austria, in the middle of the Styrian hills. The name is easily associated with his distant cousins, Ewald Tscheppe of the Werlitsch estate or his brother Andreas Tscheppe and his labels with the dragonfly.

It is therefore quite natural that the two young people gravitate towards the world of wine and gastronomy, and met in 2005 at a winegrowers' fair in Vienna. It was love at first sight over a first bottle! Both wine lovers, they decided to launch themselves in that universe, one way or another. They settled in Oggau, on the shores of Lake Neusiedl, in 2007, taking over an old estate.

Dedicated to organic and biodynamic farming from the start, they gradually shaped their estate and their dream, expanding, planting vines, opening their own "Heuriger", a sort of typical Austrian winegrower's restaurant, and developing their wines, with such familiar faces and names borrowed from imaginary characters, Winifred, Theodora, Atanasius... wines with identity, pure, touching and so personal.