The HERRENHOF is unique, just like the Buchertberg site, which stretches southwards from the farm. This is where it all began - actually around 300 years ago, when the farm was still owned by the Vorau Canons' Monastery - hence the name HERRENHOF. Back then, wine was produced for the monastery on the barren sandstone soils.
Today, Gottfried Lamprecht is the winegrower who started it all again. His great-grandfather originally came from the south of Styria and acquired the HERRENHOF in 1913 due to its very favourable location. The vineyards had been cleared in the meantime, but around 8 years ago this wine-growing project was brought back to life. This is done in a very special way: even the base wine, the Pinot Blanc, is fermented spontaneously in half and whole startin (300 and 600 litres), just as it used to be on the farm. Technology is largely dispensed with. All wines are ‘natural wines’ with minimal sulphurisation. Even Furmint has been planted, making it the only place in Styria today where this old, very high-quality grape variety from south-east Europe is being cultivated again. As a special ‘speciality’, a traditional white ‘Gemischter Satz’ (Buchertberg Weiss) is cultivated: old and almost extinct grape varieties have also been planted.
The Buchertberg is mainly white wine country, but when it comes to red wine, Gottfried Lamprecht mainly focusses on Pinot Noir and Blaufränkisch (Buchertberg red). An orange wine, Buchertberg On The Skins, is bottled as a special wine. A lot of manual labour is invested in the vineyards - the standard of the wines is very high.