South Tyrolean wines are known worldwide for their excellent quality and diversity. The wine region stretches across the picturesque landscape of the South Tyrolean Alps and includes many small wine-growing communities that are prized for their unique grape varieties and terroirs.
Winegrowers in South Tyrol are committed to using natural farming methods to produce high quality wines with a distinctive taste and aroma. Popular grape varieties in the region include Vernatsch, Lagrein, Gewürztraminer and Pinot Grigio.
South Tyrolean wines are perfect for many occasions, festive dinners to cosy evenings at home. They are also perfect for discovering and experiencing the region's rich cultural heritage.
If you are looking for excellent wines produced by dedicated winemakers in a beautiful setting, be sure to try South Tyrolean wines.
Gewürztraminer Crescendo Auratus - 2021 - Winery Ritterhof
Selected grapes make this a special Gewürztraminer Wine: golden yellow in color, aromatic with typical roses and geraniums notes in the odor, he impresses with its elegant, fruity spiciness and freshness in the taste. Recommendation: As an apertif. Suits spicy dishes, to fried fish, particulary crabs and lobster.
Pinot Bianco South Tyrol Penon - 2022 - vine cel. Nals-Margreid
The mixed limestone and clay loam of the Penon Vineyard ensure the harmonious aroma of the wine. As its taste is characterized by a well-balanced acidity and a persisting full flavour, this wine can be perfectly combined with light starters and dishes with fish or white meat.
Schiava Old Grapes - 2022 - Castelfeder Winery
This wine once again proves the great potential of the Schiava variety. Bright ruby-red colour, it shows fine friut aromas as well as vinous flavours. With its light and smooth tannin and a pleasant freshness, this well-balanced wine is uncomplicated and easy-drinking and the perfect combination to traditional Speck (a kind of smoked bacon).
Gewürztraminer Aimè - 2022 - Winery Girlan
The intense, aromatic bouquet, together with soft, full character needs flavoursome dishes. We recommend serving this wine with shellfish, flavoured cheeses and desserts, such as strudel. Also a good match with spicy dishes and sweet and sour creations with an Asian touch.
Comtess Sanct Valentin - 2020 - Winery S. Michele Appiano
The St. Valentin Comtess' is an especially rare speciality of the winery. A dessert wine of irresistible type, complexity and finesse. After a late harvest (mid-November) Gewürztraminer grapes are mixed with those of Riesling, Sauvignon and dried in wooden crates for several weeks, then they are pressed and transferred to a steel casket for maturation. Comtess' is characterised by a multiface - ted bouquet with aromas reminiscent of roses, cinamon and nutmeg. The young, fresh fragrances intensify in their complexity when correctly matured in the bottle, gradually assuming discrete hints of honey. An elegantly tasteful dessert wine with a full-bodied, fresh acidity which pairs harmoniously with the matching residual sweetness. It unleashes on the palate a delicate symphony of impressions and experiences, which leave behind a lasting effect. A wine with a future, which can be left to mature at the winery for several years without further ado.
Cabernet Sauvigon Riserva Lafot - 2020 - vine cellar Nals-Margreid
'Lafot' Cabernet is a versatile and complex wine, the vines which grow in Magrè. The temperature is mild, the hills sunny. The 12 months ageing in durmast barrels gives to Lafot strength and complexity. The taste is blackberries-like, as well as eucalyptus and pepper.
Lagrein Riserva - 2021 - Winery Thurnhof
The late harvest and the high ripeness of the grapes provokes a powerful flavour of dark berries (elderberry, blackberry) and chocolate. Its potent and round tannin encountered in the mouth makes us aware of the primitive charm this grape variety is known for. this the wine draws its liveliness, power and energy.
Pinot Noir Fuchsleiten - 2022 - Winery Pfitscher
The intensive scent of red and dark berries as well as violets is typical of our vineyards in Montan. The Blauburgunder the Unterland region comes astonishingly close to some of the "model" wines Burgundy. This red wine develops harmoniously, with a full body and lasting finish. In the glass it gleams with a beautiful dark to ruby red.
Pinot Blanc Schulthauser HB 0,375 lt. - 2022 - Winery S. Michele Appiano
This Pinot Bianco is without a doubt the star amongst the wines of the St. Michael-Eppan cooperative winery. It is simply the wine to express most convincingly the quality potential South Tyrolean white wine and the philosophy behind the production methods used in winery. A straw colour with green lustre, it reveals a broad palette of scents, in particular apple, apricot, pear and a slight cedar wood fragrance. With its velvety smoothness and full-bodied acidity which underscore its strength and grandeur, this wine is a delight on the palate. A complete wine you don't come across every day, to satisfy many demands made by sophisticated cuisine.
Merlot - Cabernet Soma - 2021 - Winery Kurtatsch
The approach to the palate is solid and lush, with a rush of fleshy dark wild berries, while nuanced tannins give the round body a stable balance and a good constitution for a lengthy aging in the bottle.
Cabernet Sauvignon Riserva - 2017 - Winery Kurtatsch
"Freienfeld" Cabernet is a single varietal Cabernet Sauvignon that represents the quintessence of quality winegrowing in Kurtatsch. Only when weather conditions have produced an optimal vintage is a "Freienfeld" produced.
Chardonnay Sanct Valentin Magnum - 2020 - Winery S. Michele Appiano
A wine with international style, produced only in good years the best grapes. This vouches for its excellent reputation. The wine has a gold-yellow colour, with a pronounced vanilla tone that arises its maturation in small oak casks and strong aromas of ripe fruits, this Chardonnay also establishes itself on the palate, strong and rich, with a pleasant fullness of body. Its refinement is especially distinguished and sets it apart. A Chardonnay for those who are seeking an especially unique wine, to enjoy either by itself or as companion to refined dishes of sophisticated cuisines, and one which will turn into an even more special experience after several years of additional maturation in the bottle.
Cabernet Riserva Burgum Novum - 2019 - Castelfeder Winery
A deep garnet-red color, this wine exhibits understated aromas of cherries, cassis and wild berries. Forceful yet round in flavor, its impressive depth and elegance persist throughout its lingering finish. An excellent accompaniment to pork, veal, or beef, lamb, poultry, game or gamebirds, as well as cheeses.
Pinot Blanc Vial - 2022 - Winery Caldaro
Through a gentle and natural cellaring, we preserve this wine's racy, fresh aromas. Straw-yellow tinged with green, our Weissburgunder, or Pinot blanc, presents a fruity nose of green apples and white blossoms. On the palate, this wine is fresh, lively and crisp, and surprises with its impressively full body.
St. Magdalena Rondell - 2021 - Tenuta Glögglhof South Tyrol
Characteristics: - colour: bright, vigorous ruby red colour - smell: fruity and flowery with a scent of cherries and violets, fine almond flavour, warm - taste: velvety, harmonious, strongly developed and full bodied, depth, mild acidity, fine tannin and a lingering aftertast.
Cuvee Rossa Riserva Flora - 2021 - Winery Girlan
Intense ruby red, full and very pleasing to the palate. Light balsamic notes of rosemary and thyme. Certainly an important read wine and particularly suitable for roast meats, game and spicy cheeses.
Pinot Grigio Mont Més - 2022 - Castelfeder Winery
Light green lustres run through the radiant straw-yellow colour of this wine, whose aroma is rich in fruits, the most striking of which are pears and apples. An excellent balance gives this wine strength and structure. It is dry and smooth on the palate with a pleasant, mineral aftertaste. Pinot Grigio goes well with many dishes, especially lighter foods, fried mushrooms and fresh water fish.
Pinot Noir Riserva - 2020 - winery Brunnenhof
The colour: dark ruby. A smell of raspberries and strawberries, a grace of blackberries. A complicated and, nevertheless, harmonious body, severity and acid in the unison, hard and concentrated. A velvety, persistent departure.
Sauvignon Blanc Lafoa Magnum - 2022 - cantina Colterenzio
A clean, concentrated floral nose reminiscent of elder and acacia flower with ah hint of sage, leads to a fresh, distinctive palate with nicely rounded fruit, light oak spice and a crisp finish. Enjoy it with a snack of fresh goats' cheese and smoked salmon pâté with crusty bread, or as a partner for lobster tail salad, full-flavoured fish dishes, scallops stir-fried with ginger, or goats' cheese soufflé.
Pinot Noir Glener - 2021 - Castelfeder Winery
Powerful ruby red colour. Fine characteristic Pinot bouquet with a clearly fruity character and a trace of spicey and smokey aromas. This wine is powerful and expressive on the palate with a pleasant tannic background. A noble wine for moderately complicated dishes.
Lagrein South Tyrol - 2020 - Winery Putzenhof
Ruby to dark garnet red with slightly violet tones, pleasant bouquet typical for this kind of wine, light smell of violet, vanilla and dark forest berries, harsh-fruity in the palate, substantial and smoothly with a fine, velvety aroma and soft tannic acids.
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