Kamptal

On its way down to the Danube plain, the region’s namesake river Kamp dug a deep valley into the highlands of the Waldviertel, dominated by soils of granite & gneiss. In its lower reaches, the valley gradually becomes wider and branches out; the undulating landscape gives way to plains, the forest to grapevines. Here, the Kamptal embraces a geological borderland. On the steep slopes, organised centuries ago into terraces, vines grow on the crystalline rock collection of the Bohemian Massif (gneiss, amphibolite, granite, mica schist & weathered soils). The slopes level off and gradually dip into the layers of loess – deposited through the ages by powerful dust storms – that preponderantly dominate the southern part of the winegrowing region.