Kapitel Zwei Wine — 10-winery Vienna pop-up, end of July

• Wine
• Pop-up
• Free
• Natural wine
• Austrian winemakers

Chris Sciacca's career pivot reads like a parable. Twenty-five years in corporate communications — the kind of work that fills calendars and empties mornings. Then, at a point when most people are consolidating, he walked away. Completed a three-year viticulture degree at IMC Krems. Started a winery. Planted French grapes in Austrian soil. Aged the wine in 55-litre Italian amphora.

Kapitel Zwei Wine — the name is a nod to the second chapter — grows Chenin Blanc, Roussanne, and Sémillon in the Kremstal, varietals that are genuinely rare in Austria. The logic is sound: the region is already famous for Grüner Veltliner and Riesling. Competing on those terms would be pointless. So Sciacca chose the grapes he wanted to learn with, even the difficult ones. Roussanne ripens unevenly; he grows it anyway because it's his favourite.

His first vintage — a cuvée of Grüner Veltliner and his own Chenin Blanc — was bottled in August 2024. Since then, he's been testing. Orange wine. Amphora aging. Banana peel compost as a soil amendment (the subject of his thesis).

The Pop-Up Format

Before launching the winery, Sciacca ran two consecutive pop-up wine bars in Paris, each featuring 27 Austrian wineries pouring over a month-long run. The format works: no velvet rope, no gatekeeping, just wine and the people who make it. Vienna deserves the same.

This July, Kapitel Zwei is hosting a free 10-winery pop-up in Vienna. The exact date and venue are still being finalized — the team is in final coordination with the venues. Reach out to chris@kapitelzwei.wine if you want to be on the list, or check kapitelzwei.wine for updates as the date firms up.