Ep. 1391 Hannes Rottensteiner | Italian Trade Agency Masterclasses In Germany

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And, your wine is part of the, mountain wines from Italy. So Welcome, Hanes Rottensteiner. And you are from the Rottensteiner, Kantida Rottensteiner. Okay. I'm I'm on a roll here. Okay. So tell me tell me who you are, and tell me the history of your winery. Right. History of my winery. So my name is Hange Swautner, as you already said. And, well, let's see. Let's say I want to begin with not the history of the company, but with the history of the family. It's a little bit more interesting as it's a very old family, and it's, doing well since, fifteen, twenty eight. Wow. That is fault. Yeah. But, however, it's not a very linear history. As an adviser, we have this concept of, the manzo cuso. So the whole, farm always goes to the firstborn son. Or now also firstborn daughter, and all the other children have to leave the farm. You're kidding. Yeah. So it's it's like this. It's just over two different things. It seems brutal, but at the other side, you have the guarantee to always have enough land so that, family can live from this land. So tell me something because this is the first time I've heard this. Now if Have you had a lot of very, like, generous people in your in your family that have, like, owned it? And then said, okay, sisters and brothers. I love you all. Here, I will help you in your life. Actually, actually not. No. Actually, it has been, let's say, my my parents were first ones to divide them. Really? Vignettes. Yeah. And so, for example, my grandpa had to had to move away, from his farm. That farm's still producing its wines, still selling the swine, and found them, the other one. Wow. And started in nineteen fifty six with the company as we have it now. Okay. Okay. And, so it's in my family, there are four wineries of Apologia. Italian wine podcast brought to you by mama jumbo shrimp. Okay. No. Actually, that's genius because that means that everybody wants to go into wine So you just start another Rottenstein. It's like this. That's genius, and you have competition with yourself. That's Friday. I love it. Okay. Sorry. Totally off track, but I find that fascinating. So, tell me, which wine is featured in the master class? The sauvignon. Sauvignon. Tell me about the sauvignon. Sauvignon, but there's, not that marshutal. It grows on two different vineyards, two different soils. For me, it's, rather important if you produce sovignon to have, more, facets of the, so first one is Samantha Carriers. Soil in the Abiano community, and that gives a quite smooth, quite fruity, quite creamy, sauvignon. The other one is in the Buzano community on a porphyry soil, and that's a much for, green in the in the nose, more minerality, more, freshness, and it's, always quite nice to put them together at the end. Okay. Okay. And and so that's is that your signature one? Or is it a different one? No. It's just a wine. Exactly. They choose they choose it, for tasting over here. What's your signature wine? Signature wine where I am from Muzano. So it's the typical wines of the secret of Muzano Santa Marlena, and, and La Grange. Maybe the company's best known for La Grange at the moment, but we were also working quite much on, Santelena. Okay. Okay. Awesome. And, so we in Germany. Do you guys export to Germany? Or we do. That's I I assume so. But I just I gotta ask. Actually, it's a very, very, historic market for I plotted your wines, especially the southern part of, of, Germany. So in medieval times, actually, the monasteries of, Vaya Mhmm. Were the most important vineyard owners in Natalie So so it's a very, very long, tradition to export wine. Gosh. Those monks, they really like their wine. Yeah. I know. I that's great. No. And but okay. Where do you export everywhere, or is there a market in the world where you would like to see your wine break in and do really well? I'm quite pragmatic on this one. So, it doesn't matter, actually, where I saw the wine important thing is that at the end of the year, when it's sold, the however, the market with biggest growth in, last years has been USA. Mhmm. And also Italy's growing very rough. Yeah. So we have a domestic market. That's no. That's fantastic. Yeah? Well, I guess that's that's that's all my questions. I I would probably ask you what's your favorite food? My family food. You cancelled the day. Who else? You know? Maybe, with a traditional food, it's the Viena Schnitz. Yeah. Oh, I see I'm Austrian. So I'm a big fan of Viena Schnitzil. Okay. So you would pair that with your signature wine? With the something about with the Saint Macelena, I would pair it. Yes. Not with the Brayan. No. Okay. No. No. It's okay. So with the Brayan, maybe, game or something. Maybe ravioli stuffed with, some chingale Yeah. The quite heavy sauce. I'm hungry. That's good. Okay. Alright. So that's it. Well, that's thank you, Haines, for your time. And I hope you enjoy the rest of this pair. It is huge. So many people and enjoy the master class. Okay. Thank you so much. Alright. Bye. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcast. We're on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, HimalIFM, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through Italianline podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, and publication costs. Until next time.