Muscat Ottonel, a love story

How an Austrian and a Spaniard met and decided to make wine and more in Burgenland.

Sometimes the path of true love really does alter everything. When Austrian Martin Lichtenberger and Spaniard Adriana González met in 2007, during their winemaking studies in California, they might not have predicted that they'd soon be making wine together on another continent.

Having fallen in love, they finessed a way for Adriana to do her internship in Martin's "heimat", Burgenland. That was 2008. She never left. Together, they rebranded Martin's old family winery as "Lichtenberger González", and despite both working 55 hour weeks for separate employers (Gernot Heinrich and Birgit Braunstein, respectively) they've slowly building their own name with some delicious wines.