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Amber RoadWine Co.

Producers · 7 estates · Poland

These bottles come from somewhere, and someone made them.

A worker seen from behind walks between yellowing vines on grey stony soil below low hills.

South-west of Wrocław · Lower Silesia · Poland

Winnica Silesian

  • 10.5 ha · granite, loess
  • Organic, in conversion
  • Roter Riesling, Riesling, Pinot Noir

Ten and a half hectares of granite and loess in the Sudeten foothills, south-west of Wrocław, in conversion to organic farming. Riesling, Pinot Noir and a red-berried Roter Riesling, picked by hand and fermented with native yeast.

Autumn vines fill the foreground below a wooded hill with a pale wall and tower partly hidden by trees.

Bielany, Kraków · Kraków Jura · Poland

Winnica Srebrna Góra

  • 28 ha · limestone, loess
  • Sustainable, hand harvest
  • Pinot Noir, Riesling

Twenty-eight hectares on the limestone hill at Bielany, on the western edge of Kraków, below the Camaldolese monastery. Founded in 2008: Pinot Noir and Riesling on Jurassic limestone and loess.

Autumn vines at a pale loess bluff overlook a wide river bend softened by mist.

Bliskowice · Vistula Gorge · Poland

Dom Bliskowice

  • 4.5 ha · loess, limestone
  • Natural, low intervention
  • Solaris, Regent, Rondo

A small natural-wine estate on the loess slopes of the Vistula gorge, farmed with as little intervention as the season allows. Solaris made on its skins, and a pét-nat rosé from Regent and Rondo.

Long autumn vine rows cross sandy ground beside pines under a broad grey sky.

Baniewice · West Pomerania · Poland

Winnica Turnau

  • 37 ha · loam, sand
  • Sustainable
  • Solaris, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Rondo, Regent, Seyval Blanc, Hibernal, Riesling

The largest estate in Poland: 37 hectares of sand and loam at Baniewice, about a hundred kilometres from the Baltic. Solaris and Pinot Noir in the rows, and a traditional-method sparkling wine that shows how far north serious wine now reaches.

Autumn orchards and vines cover a loess upland above a pale ravine edge and a distant river valley.

Near Sandomierz · Sandomierz · Poland

Winnica Płochockich

  • 3 ha · loess, limestone
  • Family-farmed, hand harvest
  • St. Laurent

A family vineyard on the loess hills around Sandomierz, above the Vistula. St. Laurent is the wine we came for: dark-fruited, cool and light on its feet.

Clay qvevri tops sit in a gravel barn floor with autumn vines beyond an open doorway.

Near Wrocław · Lower Silesia · Poland

Winnica Jakubów

  • 2.5 ha
  • Low intervention

A small Lower Silesian estate that ferments its wines in clay amphorae. Skin-contact whites with colour, grip and a savoury edge, made in very small lots.

Close-planted autumn vines climb a gentle slope with protective netting rolled at the row ends.

Near Wrocław · Lower Silesia · Poland

Moderna

  • 3.1 ha
  • Hand-farmed, low input
  • Pinot Noir

Three hectares of Pinot Noir in Lower Silesia, and nothing else. A small estate that makes one grape in one style: light, cool and red-fruited.