XA22 – The Art of Distilling

Rare, exquisite, and prize winning: Our three Grüner Veltliner brandies set benchmarks. Produced with the finest of craftsmanship and matured for decades, the entry-level XA22 offers no less than premium quality; its exclusive successors, XA22 Single Cask Oloroso and XA22 Single Cask Double Oaked, further heighten the experience. Those who don’t know them should try them immediately; those who want to know more should keep reading.

Rare, exquisite, and prize winning: Our three Grüner Veltliner brandies set the benchmark. Produced with the finest of craftsmanship and matured for decades, the entry-level XA22 offers no less than premium quality; its exclusive successors, XA22 Single Cask Oloroso and XA22 Double Oaked, further heighten the experience.

We enjoy the good fortune of having a collection of brandies in our cellar stretching back over 50 years. The foundation for this high-quality inventory was established back in the 1960s.

Since the beginning of the new millennium, Domäne Wachau has only distilled rarely, and that only when the conditions were truly optimal. The completely untreated base wine is produced exclusively from Grüner Veltliner, which lends itself to fine spirits better than any other domestic grape variety. The brandies are twice distilled in copper stills and then aged in oak barrels. Based on our years of experience, we then marry old and young brandies into a highly individual vintage blend, the XA22 — ‘22’ stands for the average minimum age of the brandies inside. Our two top brandies mature for a further five years: XA22 Single Cask Oloroso and XA22 Single Cask Double Oaked.

For more details on the history and production of our fine spirits, have a look at our detailed product sheet.