Live from VieVinum 2026 in Vienna: Michaela Riedmüller of Weingut Michaela Riedmüller in Carnuntum, an exhibitor at CCWS Copenhagen 2026.

She took over the family estate at 19. We talk about wind and the Danube, Spitzerberg vs. Braunsberg Blaufränkisch, the flower labels, oak and minimal intervention, and the estate's final year of organic conversion.

Interview in English.

In the glass: Braunsberg Blaufränkisch 2022

- 100% Blaufränkisch from the Braunsberg near Hainburg an der Donau

- Spontaneous open fermentation, no sulphur before or during fermentation

- 24 months in 500-litre barrels, mostly Austrian oak; unfiltered

About the estate

- Hainburg an der Donau, Austria's easternmost town, between Vienna and Bratislava

- Farmed organically for five years, in its final year of organic certification

- The labels show flowers that grow in each vineyard

Chapters

0:00 Introduction

0:24 Carnuntum: location, wind and Danube influence

1:29 Looking back at CCWS Copenhagen 2026

2:06 Blaufränkisch: Spitzerberg vs. Braunsberg

3:03 The flower labels

4:04 Tasting the Braunsberg Blaufränkisch 2022

5:15 If not a winemaker, then what?

6:05 Wine school at 14, taking over the estate at 19, studies and South Africa

7:37 Inspirations: her mother and Dorli Muhr

8:35 Her personality as a bottle of wine

9:17 Oak and minimal intervention in the cellar

9:49 Vineyard work, organic certification and the weather station

11:39 Closing: visiting Carnuntum, 30 minutes from Vienna

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Warsaw Low intervention

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Master of Wine Wojciech Bońkowski leads a tasting of six cool-climate Pinot Noirs at the first Cool Climate Wine Summit in Warsaw, from a rare old-vine Pinot from Bohemia to Spätburgunder from the Hessische Bergstraße, the Nahe, Franken and the Ahr.

Topics: limestone, granite, Keuper, slate and greywacke; French vs. German clones; why ripe grapes handle new oak better; the move towards lighter, unoaked Pinot; and what makes the Ahr a cool climate on warm soils.

Master class in English.

The wines

1. Czech Republic (Bohemia): Pinot Noir Staré keře, old vines from the former Schwarzenberg estate

2. Hessische Bergstraße: Spätburgunder village wine from granite, Burgundy clones

3. Weingut Sinss, Nahe: Rosenberg Spätburgunder R

4. Weingut Hans Wirsching, Iphofen, Franken: Spätburgunder Ortswein from Keuper, unoaked

5. Maibachfarm, Ahr: Spätburgunder Ahrweiler Rosenthal from blue slate

6. Weingut Burggarten, Ahr (VDP): Spätburgunder Grosses Gewächs from slate and greywacke

Chapters

00:00 Preview

01:09 Welcome: six cool-climate Pinot Noirs

01:55 Wine #1 – Czech Republic: Staré keře

10:12 Wine #2 – Hessische Bergstraße

18:38 Wine #3 – Nahe: Sinss Rosenberg R

27:07 Wine #4 – Franken: Wirsching

36:12 The Ahr: Pinot Noir on slate

38:06 Wine #5 – Ahr: Maibachfarm

43:05 Wine #6 – Ahr: Burggarten

47:15 Conclusion

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Bürklin-Wolf

The Bodensee spans across Germany's southern boarder with Switzerland and France. Despite being the southmost region of German winemaking, the style here is surprisingly fresh and lean thanks to the altitude and alpine influence.

Meet Klaus Rebholz with us, who introduces us to Weingut Rebholz' philosophy and their Burgundy-inspired Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines.

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Summary

Denmark sits at the northern edge of European viticulture, between 55 and 58 degrees north, in a country of more than 400 islands where you are never further than 50 kilometres from the sea. It is a small region, around 180 hectares in total, but a fast-growing one, and it produces wine unlike almost anywhere else: high in acidity, precise in its fruit, and shaped by cool summers and days that run to 17 or 18 hours of light.In this masterclass, recorded at the Cool Climate Wine Summit in Warsaw, Danish winemaker Lou Langdon walks through five wines from across the country, from the cool north to a small, unusually warm southern island where olives, figs and almonds grow alongside the vines.

Along the way she covers what makes the region distinctive: a maritime climate that keeps winters mild and summers cool, more than half of all Danish vineyards farmed organically, and a wine culture young enough to have no fixed rules, which has left producers free to experiment with orange wines, spontaneous ferments, barrel-aged Solaris and partial malolactic.

She also explains why Denmark's high production costs push growers toward the top of the quality ladder, and how the country's Michelin-heavy restaurant scene is pulling the whole industry upward.The five wines span sparkling, orange, barrel-aged and off-dry styles, drawn largely from Solaris and Muscaris, the disease-resistant varieties that ripen reliably this far north. Denmark's first protected designation of origin, Dons, features early on.

Wines Tasted

10:36 Skærsøgaard Dons Cuvée Brut 2020

15:14 Gillleje Vin Kammersjuker 2024

20:01 By Stokebye Liva 2024

25:10 Hideaway Vingaard Gåsefod 2024

31:17 Guldbæk Muscaris 2025

Drive south of Berlin, follow a forest road until a vineyard appears on a plateau, and look to the horizon: five kilometres away, the excavators of an active open-cast coal mine are still at work. This is Weingut Wolkenberg, and the soil under the vines is not ancient. It was engineered from mining spoil and recultivated in a research programme with Geisenheim University that began in 2005.

Weingut Wolkenberg is one of only six or seven wineries in Brandenburg, a region that sits entirely outside Germany's official wine appellation system. The village of Wolkenberg was relocated in 1987 to make way for the mining. The winery carries its name. The winery was completed in 2024.

Sales & Export Manager Philipp Henke spoke with Cool Climate Wine Summit CEO Jan Eggers about working without a regional designation, the grape varieties that suit this landscape, a Wochenende blend built across two vintages, Roter Riesling in sand and clay, a Qvevri project that came back from Georgia with more amphorae than planned, and why Poland is already on the radar for a winery an hour and a half from the border.

Recorded at the Wolkenbergwinery, with a glass of Wochenende and a view of the mine.

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Recording from our Impulse tasting at ProWein 2026 - Nordic Sparkling Wines.

Presenting:

• Dyrehæj Johanniter Brut (Denmark, Røsnæs)
• Lottenlund Perlé Souvignier Gris (Sweden, Skåne)
• Dom Janton Blanc de Blancs Seyval Blanc (Poland, Central Poland)
• Skærsøgaard DONS Rosé Cabernet Cortis, Rondo, Pinot Noir Précoce

Bob Molling didn't plan to become a winemaker. He spent six months studying economics, realised a desk wasn't his future, and eventually found his way to the vineyards of the Luxembourg Moselle via an apprenticeship, a harvest in South Africa, and a phone call from his grandmother.

Today he runs Molling Wines with his wife — 4.2 hectares, around 25,000 bottles a year, and a philosophy that can be summed up in three words: no beautification, just pure.

In this conversation with Cool Climate Wine Summit CEO Jan Eggers, Bob talks about what it really means to farm with low intervention (without being dogmatic about it), how the 2023 vintage pushed him to his limits, why economic sustainability and environmental sustainability are the same conversation, and what Luxembourg wine needs to do to find its place on the global stage.

Honest, grounded, and recorded mid-harvest above the Moselle valley with a bottle of unlabelled wine on the table.

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