Bernhard Stadlmann

The Climb

Bernhard Stadlmann began his career as a winemaker at Weingut Stadlmann in Traiskirchen, Thermenregion, Austria. The estate, the town, and the wider Thermenregion framed the work from the start, giving the craft a fixed ground rather than a changing stage. That early path established a clear throughline: a career rooted in the same house, the same landscape, and the same exacting focus on the grapes tied to that place.

Today

Bernhard Stadlmann’s current role is winemaker at Weingut Stadlmann in Traiskirchen, Austria. Zierfandler and Rotgipfler remain the most specific shorthand for the style: not simply Austrian wine, but a Thermenregion-linked identity expressed through two named grapes. The language points to adjustment rather than upheaval, and to refinement rather than rupture. In a trade where each season shifts the conditions, that posture matters: Bernhard’s approach reads as measured response, with small, considered changes made in recognition of a climate that now moves faster than it once did.

Signature

Bernhard's signature wines include Mandel-Höh, Rotgipfler, Zierfandler, Rotgipfler Anninger, and Zierfandler Anninger. Together, these names map the range of the work: anchored in the same grapes that define the broader identity, but distinct enough to show different expressions of the same house logic. The repetition of Rotgipfler and Zierfandler across the list makes clear that these are not incidental varieties, but the backbone of the style.

In Their Words “Climatic changes that used to take 200 years are happening today in ten or twenty years.” “All I needed to do was tweak this or that.”

Recognition

Bernhard's honors include Falstaff Winemaker of the Year (1994).