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The 2016 comes from the first years of Rennersistas. Stefanie and Susanne Renner took over their parents' winery in Gols in 2014 and released their first wines from the 2015 vintage, so this was only their second.

It was bottled under the name of Renner Helmuth & Mitges.; Helmuth Renner had taken over the family estate in 1988. It went into bottle unfiltered, and the estate says it filters none of its wines.

2016 was a hard year around Gols. By the Austrian Wine Marketing Board's count, the late April frost caused shortfalls of 50 to 80 per cent in Burgenland and Steiermark. Frost, worst in the Seewinkel, and a hailstorm at the end of June around Gols and in Mittelburgenland cut the harvest there to about half the normal volume. The Board still summed up the year as reduced quantity and top quality.

Ten years on, it sits next to the 2023 as a record of where the sisters started, in a vintage of frost and hail around Gols.