Press texts: The Christian Fischer Wine Estate Producing fine wines since 1662 Since 1662, the Christian Fischer Wine Estate has been operating out of the family’s ancestral home, one of the oldest in the village of Sooß, Austria. At the beginning of the 1980s, after completing an intensive vintner education programme, Christian Fischer joined his father Engelbert to carry on the family tradition. [more] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Thermal Region Where the surf of the primeval ocean once ebbed and flowed across the land, a unique combination of micro-climate, limestone and fertile brown soil came into being The Austrian Thermal Region extends from the southern city border of Vienna to the city of Wiener Neustadt and comprises 5700 acres of vineyards. [more] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Christian Fischer With wine-growing in his blood, and after graduating of the winegrowing school in Klosterneuburg and Krems, Christian Fischer entered his parent’s firm in 1982 and has been responsible for wine production since then. Not much later he excited the specialists with his first barrel red wine (Pinot Noir 1985). „In those days the interest in red wine in Austria had just begun – and that stimulated me.” Christian Fischer [more] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Figures & Facts: [more]