- Vintage
- 2022
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir
- Alcohol
- 12.5% vol
- Soil
- granite & gneiss
- Elevation
- 260–300 m
- Farming
- organic, in conversion
- Harvest
- by hand, late September
- Fermentation
- native yeast, open vats, part whole bunch
- Ageing
- 12 months in used barrels
- Production
- 2,600 bottles
- Serve
- 14–16 °C
- Cellar
- 4–8 years
Tasting
Light ruby, translucent to the stem. Red cherry and raspberry, then rosehip, damp earth and a thread of smoke. Light-bodied and cool: the acidity carries the wine more than the tannin does, and the whole bunches in the ferment add a peppery lift. A year in used barrels has rounded the edges without adding the taste of wood. Serve it a little cool. It opens over an evening and will keep for several years.
Food
Roast duck with cherries, Mushroom and barley risotto, Grilled trout
Why does it taste like this?
Descend one layer at a time.
Grape · Pinot Noir
Burgundian red. ≈100 ha across 120 Polish wineries; red cherry, raspberry, gentle tannin.
Soil · granite & gneiss
Granite & gneiss: Stress and precision. Lean fruit, firm acidity, a smoky or flinty edge; wines that age on structure.
Vineyard · Pod Skałą, 2.8 haPod Skałą means below the rock: rows under a granite outcrop that holds the afternoon heat.
Winnica Silesian: Granite · 10.5 ha · organic conversion · Roter Riesling.
Region · Lower Silesia
Poland's mildest wine country, in the Oder valley around Wrocław. Granite in the Sudeten foothills, loess and sandy clay along the river, calcareous ground to the south-east; Pinot Noir and Chardonnay do best. The first Polish appellation application is for this region.
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
- ≈ 50.5° – 51.5° N
- Elevation
- 120 – 350 m · Trzebnica Hills to the north
- Climate
- mildest in Poland; oceanic influence from the west
- Rainfall
- ≈ 550 – 650 mm
- Growing season
- ≈ 200 – 230 days
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