Rennersistas

This write up below is an excerpt from We Don’t Want Any Crap in Our Wine, borrowed from TRINK Mag.

In 2015, Susanne and Stefanie Renner took over the family wine business in Gols, Austria and became their parents’ bosses. In short order, the sisters converted to biodynamics and created their own line of wines, Rennersistas, in addition to the family's traditional red Renner cuvées. Ever since, Susanne and Stefanie have reveled in the freedom of making their own decisions and agree it’s much easier to make wine together as sisters than as a couple. But if it hadn’t been for some inspiring neighbors, there may not have been any Rennersistas.

 “I have a plan, but I have a different approach than you do. You have to stop meddling! You can go get the grapes with the tractor.” Stefanie Renner’s message to her father, Helmuth, was clear. It was 2016 and the sisters’ first harvest as heads of the family business. But Helmuth was still trying to call the shots in the cellar, while the sisters wanted to do things differently. They had converted from organics to biodynamics and started their own line of low-intervention wines.

Read the whole story here:
https://trinkmag.com/articles/rennersistas