Austrian Marillenbrand & premium eau-de-vie
Austria pushed fruit distilling to its aromatic, low-yield extreme — the Wachau's apricots and the cult single-fruit bottlings of Tyrol and Styria.
Austria's Wachau valley grows the protected Wachauer Marille apricot, yielding the benchmark Marillenbrand. Austrian houses like Rochelt (Tyrol), Reisetbauer (Upper Austria), Gölles (Styria) and Pfau (Carinthia) set the modern standard for uncompromising, single-fruit eau-de-vie, often aged long in glass.
Fritzens, Tyrol · Austria
A cult Tyrolean house making uncompromising single-fruit eau-de-vie — apricot, quince, sour cherry, and a famed rowanberry.
Kirchberg-Thening, Upper Austria · Austria
A modern Austrian distiller prized for estate-fruit apricot, raspberry, pear, apple, plum and rowan/wild-service eaux-de-vie.
Riegersburg, Styria · Austria
A Styrian house making fine apple, pear and plum brandies (and famed fruit vinegars).
Klagenfurt, Carinthia · Austria
A Carinthian distiller of precise single-fruit eaux-de-vie.
Krems, Wachau · Austria
The classic Wachau apricot house, working the protected Wachauer Marille.
Wachau / Spitz, Lower Austria · Austria
A Wachau specialist in apricot (Marille) brandy from the protected Danube-valley fruit.
Lustenau, Vorarlberg · Austria
A Vorarlberg distiller of Alpine orchard and wild-fruit eaux-de-vie.