- Vintage
- 2024
- Grapes
- Regent, Rondo
- Alcohol
- 11.0% vol
- Soil
- loess
- Elevation
- 150–180 m
- Farming
- natural, low intervention
- Harvest
- by hand, mid-September
- Fermentation
- native yeast, bottled before the ferment finished
- Ageing
- 4 months in bottle, not disgorged
- Production
- 1,200 bottles
- Serve
- 6–8 °C
- Cellar
- drink within 2 years
Tasting
Mgła means mist, after the mornings in the gorge. Regent and Rondo, two dark-skinned, cold-hardy crossings, pressed quickly for a pale colour and bottled before the ferment finished. Light coral and a little hazy, with a soft, fine sparkle. Wild strawberry, redcurrant and rhubarb, a yeasty edge, then a dry, tart finish. Low in alcohol and easy to finish. Open it cold, carefully, and drink it this year.
Food
Charcuterie and pickles, Fresh cheese with radishes, Fried chicken
Why does it taste like this?
Descend one layer at a time.
Soil · loess
Loess: Warm, porous, drains fast, holds just enough water. Ripe fruit, soft texture, generous aromatics.
Vineyard · Nad WisłąNad Wisłą means above the Vistula: loess slopes where the river mist lifts late on autumn mornings.
Dom Bliskowice.
Region · Vistula Gorge
Loess and limestone slopes in the Vistula gorge around Kazimierz Dolny, called Poland's quality leader and home to a natural-wine cluster.
Climate · transitional oceanic–continental
Transitional oceanic–continental, EU zone A; growing season 180–230 days, 1,400–1,900 sunshine hours, 450–650 mm rain in the lowlands.
- Latitude
- ≈ 51.3° N
History · c.1600 BC to Today
- c.1600 BC
- Baltic amber reaches the Mediterranean; the road exists
- 1st c.
- Roman Carnuntum, Pannonia, Aquileia; vines along the Danube
- 966
- Christianisation; Bull of Gniezno records Polish vineyards
- 1136
- 1136 · The Bull of Gniezno
- 1250
- Cistercians at Paradyż; medieval peak near 4,000 ha
- 1513
- Little Ice Age frosts; the long cooling
- 1826–60s
- Grempler Sekt; Grünberg's 1,400 ha
- 1900
- Phylloxera; Moravia falls to 3,800 ha
- 1945
- Borders redrawn twice; Grünberg becomes Zielona Góra
- 1982
- Jasło, hobbyists, EU accession, the 2008 law
- 2008
- 2008 · The wine law
- Today
- 673 growers in Poland; the first PDO in process
See where this wine comes from
Bottle → producer → vineyard → region → country → Central Europe