- Vintage
- 2024
- Grapes
- Solaris
- Alcohol
- 12.5% vol
- Soil
- loam & sand
- Elevation
- 50–70 m
- Farming
- sustainable
- Harvest
- by hand, early September
- Fermentation
- steel
- Ageing
- 4 months on lees in steel
- Production
- 12,000 bottles
- Serve
- 8–10 °C
- Cellar
- 1–4 years
Tasting
Piasek means sand: the estate's vines grow in sand and loam. Solaris, fermented in steel and kept on its lees for four months. Pale gold. Yellow apple, pear, elderflower and a little honey, as the grape tends to give, with a clean, fresh line through the middle. Medium-bodied, dry and round. Easy to like without being simple; the sand keeps it light on its feet. Drink it over the next three years.
Food
Smoked fish salad, Roast cauliflower with brown butter, Mild goat cheese
Why does it taste like this?
Descend one layer at a time.
Grape · Solaris
PIWI white, Freiburg 1975. Poland's most-planted variety; ripe, fruit-driven, early.
Soil · loam & sand
Loam & sand: Early, open, approachable. Credited with sparing Grünberg from the worst of phylloxera. Good for sparkling base wines.
Vineyard · Baniewice estateSand drains fast and warms early, so Solaris ripens fully here and keeps its freshness.
Winnica Turnau.
Region · West Pomerania
Sand and loam about 100 km from the Baltic, home to Winnica Turnau, Poland's largest estate at 37 ha.
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
- ≈ 53.1° 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