Pale salmon-pink with a slight haze. The nose bursts with fresh raspberry, strawberry, and red cherry, accompanied by subtle floral and herbal undertones. On the palate, bright acidity carries juicy red fruit flavors, a light natural fizz adding lift, finishing clean and refreshing

Eduard Tscheppe and Stephanie Tscheppe-Eselböck founded Gut Oggau in 2007, reviving a 17th-century winery that had sat abandoned for two decades in the village of Oggau. Eduard brought winemaking experience from working with his father in Styria; Stephanie contributed a culinary sensibility developed through her family's ownership of Taubenkobel, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Burgenland. They met at a Vienna wine fair in 2005.

The estate's prolonged neglect proved advantageous: chemical residues had cleared from the soils, allowing immediate conversion to biodynamic practices. Gut Oggau now holds full Demeter certification across roughly 25 hectares. The couple also restored a 200-year-old vertical screw press, which remains in use for select cuvées.

What distinguishes Gut Oggau is its fictional family concept. Each vineyard possesses a distinct personality, which Eduard and Stephanie chose to express through characters illustrated by artist Jung von Matt. The children—Theodora, Atanasius, Winifred—represent younger vines yielding lighter, energetic wines. The parents—Joschuari, Emmeram, Timotheus, Josephine—come from warmer sites producing fuller-bodied cuvées. The grandparents—Mechthild, Bertholdi—derive from the oldest vines and traditional methods, including the antique press.

The Maskerade series exists outside this family structure. These wines come from recently acquired vineyards still developing their identity. As the estate explains, these plots are "still hiding their true self"—only after fully revealing their character will they join the family. Until then, they remain masked. The Maskerade wines offer an accessible entry point to Gut Oggau's distinctive approach, bottled in 1-liter format with crown cap closures. Annual production across all wines totals approximately 40,000 bottles.