- Vintage
- 2022
- Grapes
- St. Laurent
- Alcohol
- 12.5% vol
- Soil
- loess, limestone & calcareous clay
- Elevation
- 190–230 m
- Farming
- family-farmed, hand harvest
- Harvest
- by hand, late September
- Fermentation
- native yeast, steel
- Ageing
- 10 months in older oak
- Production
- 2,000 bottles
- Serve
- 14–16 °C
- Cellar
- 3–8 years
Tasting
Wawrzyniec is Polish for Laurence: the grape's name, translated. Dark cherry red. Black cherry, sour plum and a little clove, the dark fruit of St. Laurent with the brisk acidity of a cool site. Loess over limestone gives it a soft middle and a firm finish. Light tannin, ten months in older oak, nothing heavy. A red for the middle of the week, at a family table; serve it slightly cool.
Food
Duck breast with sour cherries, Bigos, Grilled sausages with mustard
Why does it taste like this?
Descend one layer at a time.
Grape · St. Laurent
Pinot Noir offspring, Austria and Moravia
Soil · loess, limestone & calcareous clay
Loess: Warm, porous, drains fast, holds just enough water. Ripe fruit, soft texture, generous aromatics.
Limestone & calcareous clay: Cool roots, high natural acidity, saline length, slow ripening. Tension and mineral grip.
Vineyard · Stok PołudniowyStok Południowy means south slope: loess over limestone, facing the sun above the Vistula valley.
Winnica Płochockich.
Region · Sandomierz
Loess over limestone along the Vistula in Świętokrzyskie, with 550–800 mm of rain and the Sandomierz Wine Route.
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
- ≈ 50.7° N
- Rainfall
- 550–800 mm
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