We are committed to produce premium quality of wine and are working with passion and dedication 365 days in the vineyard and the wine cellar to achieve this goal. Regularly our work is rewarded with great feedback , not only from customers but experts of the industry who awarded us with following awards, among others:
Awarded SALON winery 2026
Sauvignon Blanc
Just as in 2023, our Sauvignon Blanc has once again impressed the judges with top marks in the national competition, thereby securing its place in the SALON.
The SALON is widely regarded as Austria’s most demanding wine competition. It is based on regional wine awards, where the points achieved are decisive. The selected wines are then tasted again in a blind tasting against the finest Austrian wines. The best of these are ultimately crowned national winners.
Lower Austria Regional Wine Awards 2026
Nine gold medals
Nine of our wines were awarded gold medals at the Lower Austria Regional Wine Awards, with three going through to the final round of the Regional Winners’ Tasting on 19 June.
This tasting is regarded as a benchmark for the new vintage, with over 6,000 wines submitted by 900 winegrowers. Once again, the quality of our current vintage has been confirmed!
Following wines were awarded with a gold medal:
- Blancsecco, 2025
- Sparkling Pink, 2025
- Muskateller Frizzante, 2025
- Grüner Veltliner Muschelkalk, 2025
- Grüner Veltliner Weinviertel DAC, 2025
- Vinus Novus Gemischter Satz, 2025
- Donauriesling, 2025
- Blütenmuskateller, 2025
- Sauvignon Blanc, 2025
AWC 2026 Spring Tasting
5 times Gold medal
The AWC Vienna is regarded as one of the world’s leading and officially recognized quality competitions for wine. Each year, more than 1,400 producers submit their wines for evaluation as part of this international benchmark. At this year’s Spring Tasting, a total of 4,486 wines from 34 countries across all continents were assessed by an independent panel of experts.
We also submitted a selection of our wines this year and are proud to have been awarded five Gold medals:
- Sparkling Pink, 2025
- Muskateller Frizzante, 2025
- Donauriesling, 2025
- Gemischter Satz, 2025
- Cabernet Sauvignon Exklusive, 2023
falstaff Trophy non-alcoholic 2026
Perlavie 2025 - 92 points
At the Falstaff Trophy “non-alcoholic” 2026, our Perlavie received 92 points in the category “Verjus and similar non-alcoholic beverages,” placing just one point behind the top-ranked entries. This recognition is particularly meaningful to us, as it confirms the quality of our non-alcoholic alternative.
“Perlavie impresses with aromas of yellow grapes, white wine, and elderflower. Its fine effervescence brings notes of mustard seed spice to the palate, complemented by a touch of acidity and a crisp grape character. This makes it the ideal summer aperitif — alcohol-free and containing <0.1 mg/L histamine.”
Winner falstaff DONAU TROPHY 2025
Donauriesling 2024
In 2024, two new white grape varieties were officially approved for quality wine production in Austria: Donauriesling and Donauveltliner. Both are PIWI (fungus-resistant) varieties bred in HBLA und Bundesamt für Wein- und Obstbau Klosterneuburg. In spring 2025, Falstaff tasted these wines for the first time, and we are delighted to have achieved 1st place with 91 points for our Donauriesling 2024.
Our semi-dry, award-winning wine impressed with notes of yellow tropical fruit on the nose, complemented by delicate fruit sweetness, a vibrant acidity structure, and a distinct minerality on the palate.
Awarded SALON winery 2023
Sauvignon Blanc, Ried Buchberg
Once again this year, we had the opportunity to compete with a selection of our wines in Austria’s most demanding wine competition: the Salon Österreich Wein 2023.
After the federal states nominate the best wines from more than 8,000 submissions, the top 600 are evaluated by an expert jury in a blind tasting. Ultimately, only the finest 250 wines and 25 sparkling wines from across Austria are admitted to the Salon.
We are therefore especially proud that our Sauvignon Blanc, Ried Buchberg (vintage 2022) was selected among these top 250 wines, allowing us to carry the title Salon Winery 2023.
Following an outstanding result at the regional wine awards — where the wine achieved 3rd place — this fruit-driven wine impressed the jury with its intense notes of green bell pepper and gooseberry.
Regional Champion: BLÜTENMUSKATELLER
This year once again, we submitted a selection of our wines to the Lower Austrian wine awards, thereby competing for a place among the best wines in the region.
More than 960 wineries entered over 6,000 wines in the competition for the title of regional champion, and we are proud that two of our wines performed exceptionally well:
With our Blütenmuskateller, we won the Regional Champion (Landessieger) title in the category “semi-dry up to 90 g residual sugar” at the Niederösterreichische Landesweinprämierung.
Our second finalist, our Sauvignon Blanc, also achieved a top ranking with an outstanding 3rd place in the category “Sauvignon Blanc.”
In addition, eight wines were awarded Gold medals during the blind tasting.
vinaria wine guide 2022/23 - 2/5 crowns
Best of show: Orange Wine
This year, for the first time, we submitted a selection of our wines for evaluation in the vinaria wine guide and were rated very highly by the vinaria expert jury:
- Black King Grande Reserve, 2018 - 4 Stars
- Roesler Exklusiv, 2019 - 3 Stars
- Sauvignon Traminer Exklusiv, 2019 - 3 Stars
- Weißburgunder Exklusiv, 2019 - 3 Stars
- Grüner Veltliner Exklusiv, 2021 - 3 Stars
- Grüner Veltliner Eiswein, 2021 - 3 Stars
- Natural Wine, 2018 - 3 Stars
- Vinus Novus, 2021 - 3 Stars
- Blütenmuskateller, 2021 - 3 Stars
The winery received an overall rating of 2 out of 5 crowns – a rating that is actually withheld from newcomers.
Lower Austria Wine Awards 2022
Every year, the best wines of Lower Austria are awarded at the Lower Austrian Wine Awards. At this year’s national covert wine tasting, 13 of our wines received the top award, which confirms the consistently high quality standard of our products.
Our gold award-winning wines:
- Weinviertel DAC Grüner Veltliner, 2021
- Welschriesling, 2021
- Vinus Novus, 2021
- Chardonnay, 2021
- Donauriesling, 2021
- Blütenmuskateller, 2021
- Gelber Muskateller, 2021
- Gemischter Satz, 2021
- Grüner Veltliner Eiswein, 2021
- Sauvignon Traminer Exklusiv, 2019
- Rosé Romance, 2021
- Blauer Zweigelt, 2019
- Roesler Exklusiv, 2019
Berliner Wine Trophy 2022
Best of show: Orange Wine
Matured, aromatic, harmonious – our Natural Wine made from Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris, vintage 2018, also convinced the expert jury of the Berlin Wine Trophy, which awarded our wine with the special prize “Best Orange Wine“.
Taste today, the speciality limited to 600 pieces.
Berliner Wine Trophy 2022
Three times Gold at Germany's most important wine tasting event
Already in March, the international wine competition “Berlin Wine Trophy” took place, in which about 7,000 vinaries from all over the world participated. The Berlin Wine Trophy is the most important wine tasting event in Germany. We are all the more pleased that three of our wines were particularly convincing and were awarded gold:
- Vinus Novus 2021
- Sparkling Pink 2021
- Natural Wine 2018
Grand Cru Tasting 2022
St. Laurent und Pinot Noir 2020 and older
Bei der A La Carte Grand Crus Auskostung haben wir unseren Pinot Noir mit seinesgleichen verkosten lassen und dürfen uns über eine sehr gute Bewertung freuen:
Pinot Noir Ried Buchberg, 2018: 91 Points
14%vol, dry, matured in French oak barrels for 30 months
Fans of a full-bodied Pinot Noir with strong tannine notes will enjoy our Reserve wine a lot.
FALSTAFF RED WINE GUIDE 2022
We are pleased that our wines are now received the attention of Falstaff, the most well-known German-speaking wine journal. Three of our recently (2021) bottled red wines convinced right away the jury and are part of the Falstaff Red Wine Guide 2021:
Black King Grande Reserve, 2018: 92 Points
15%vol, dry, matured in French oak barrels for 30 months
Pinot Noir Ried Buchberg, 2018: 90 Points
14%vol, dry, matured in French oak barrels for 30 months
Roesler Exklusiv, 2019: 90 Points
14%vol, dry, matured in French oak barrels for 20 months
AWC Vienna 2021
Three times gold at the largest international wine competition
At last year’s international AWC Vienna wine tasting, 1,641 producers from 44 countries presented 12,525 wines to a jury of mine experts. This makes it the largest, international wine competition of is kind.
In a blind tasting, our wines convinced with their high quality and three of them were even awarded gold:
- Gemischter Satz 2020
- Welschriesling 2020
- Sauvignon Traminer 2019
SALON WINARY 2021
Our Chardonnay 2020 is part of the Salon 2021 of the 270 best wines in Austria.
SALON Austria Wine - the toughest wine competition in Austria
The “Salon” is considered the state championship for Austrian wines. Of all the wines awarded gold in a regional competition, those with the highest nationwide rating are invited to the tasting for the Salon. These wines from all over Austria then compete against each other as well as against 60 more wines that are nominated by wine experts.
In the final blind tasting of around 410 wines and 100 sparkling wines, the best wines in Austria are nominated by an independent expert jury.
In the end, 270 wines received a SALON award
– one of them is our Chardonnay 2020
( In the category “Burgundy Classic” only 9 Chardonnay wines in Austria were awarded as SALON21 Austria Wine)
Grand Cru Auskostung 2021
Grüner Veltliner vintage 2017-2020
In June 2021, a team of Falstaff wine experts tasted the best wines of Austria’s dominating variety:
Grüner Veltliner from the vintage 2020 to 2017.
A total of about 400 wines of the category Grüner Veltliner Classic and DAC were tasted, 80 of the full-bodied Grüner Veltliner of the vintage 2018 and 56 different Grüner Veltliner of the vintage 2017.
The results show that each of our submitted Grüner Veltliners received a top ranking:
- White King, 2017: 93 Points
- Grüner Veltliner Exklusiv, 2018: 92 Points
- Weinviertel DAC Grüner Veltliner, 2020 : 91 Points
AWC Vienna 2020 - HIGHEST AWARD
3 Star Winary AWC Vienna 2020
Having received several gold awards at the Austrian Wine Challenge in recent years, we are proud that our winery received the highest award given in 2020:
The Fürnkranz winery was classified as a 3-star winery with 546.3 points – an award that was only awarded to 22 other wineries in Austria.
In a blind tasting of over 11,200 wines from 41 countries and 1520 producers, five of our wines were awarded gold in 2020.
- Roesler Exklusiv, 2018: 92,5 Points
- Vinus Novus, 2019: 92,5 Points
- Gemischter Satz, 2019: 91 Points
- Chardonnay, 2019: 90,2 Points
- Weinviertel DAC Grüner Veltliner, 2019 : 90,2 Points
Berliner Wine Trophy 2019
Best producer ecological Austria
At the world’s largest international OIV (Organization for Vines and Wine) wine competition, called Berlin Wine Trophy”, our winery won following special prize in 2019:
Best Producer “Organic” Austria
In this tasting 3,000 international producers with a total of more than 13,000 wines took part.
We always strive to have high the ecological standards in our winery and therefore we are very pleased to have been awarded with this award.
Weingut Fürnkranz
Gerald Fürnkranz
A-2061 Obritz 170
Tel.: +43 (0)676 9664841
Fax: +43 (0)2943 2660
E-Mail: info@vegan-wein.at