A former truck driver who seemingly explains with pride that he was fired from his job (likely for wanting to do everything with greater precision!), Martin Muthenthaler returned home to his family’s vineyards in the Spitzer Graben of the Wachau, the coldest section on the north side (left bank) of the Danube (Donau) River. Once a former pathway of the Danube before tectonic movements altered the course of the river, this steep, east-to-west running valley splits off from the Danube at the far western end of the Wachau where it turns north about 4 km in. Here, Martin farms organically, almost everything of the work himself, at least until the arrival of his Bavarian wife, Melanie, who in 2021 began helping with the vineyard and administration. Without the assistance of outside consultants in the cellar but drawing on many years of exchange and collaboration with his great friend and neighbor, the Wachau luminary Peter Veyder-Malberg, this garagiste renaissance man with a talented green thumb and palate crafts Rieslings and Grüner Veltliners of sterling precision and quality, which have few equals in all of Austria.