- Vintage
- 2023
- Grapes
- Roter Riesling
- Alcohol
- 12.5% vol
- Soil
- granite & gneiss
- Elevation
- 300–340 m
- Farming
- organic, in conversion
- Harvest
- by hand, early October
- Fermentation
- native yeast, steel
- Ageing
- 6 months in old oak
- Production
- 1,400 bottles
- Serve
- 10–12 °C
- Cellar
- 3–8 years
Tasting
Rudy means russet. Roter Riesling is a red-berried form of Riesling, made here as a white: pale gold with a faint copper edge. Quince, red apple and pink grapefruit pith, a touch of hay. The acidity is as firm as the estate's Riesling, but the texture is broader, with a light, dry grip from six months in old oak. It finishes on stone and citrus peel. A white for the table rather than the aperitif.
Food
Roast pork with apples, Smoked mackerel, Hard sheep's cheese
Why does it taste like this?
Descend one layer at a time.
Grape · Roter Riesling
Red-skinned Riesling, made as a white
Soil · granite & gneiss
Granite & gneiss: Stress and precision. Lean fruit, firm acidity, a smoky or flinty edge; wines that age on structure.
Vineyard · Górny Stok, 1.5 haGórny Stok means upper slope: the highest rows, on thin granite, where the berries stay small.
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