- Vintage
- 2022
- Grapes
- Pinot Noir
- Alcohol
- 13.0% vol
- Soil
- limestone & calcareous clay, loess
- Elevation
- 220–260 m
- Farming
- sustainable, hand harvest
- Harvest
- by hand, late September
- Fermentation
- steel, then malolactic in barrel
- Ageing
- 12 months in older oak
- Production
- 6,000 bottles
- Serve
- 14–16 °C
- Cellar
- 5–10 years
Tasting
Pod Klasztorem means below the monastery: the vines grow under the Camaldolese house at Bielany, on limestone and loess. Medium ruby. Red cherry, raspberry, a little violet and a chalky, savoury edge. The limestone gives it a firm, fine line; the loess gives it some flesh. A year in older oak adds texture rather than flavour. Fine tannin, a long and cool finish. Best after an hour in a decanter.
Food
Roast chicken with thyme, Venison tartare, Aged Gouda
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 · limestone & calcareous clay, loess
Limestone & calcareous clay: Cool roots, high natural acidity, saline length, slow ripening. Tension and mineral grip.
Loess: Warm, porous, drains fast, holds just enough water. Ripe fruit, soft texture, generous aromatics.
Vineyard · KlasztornyThe monastery block: rows on the limestone hill, where cool air drains off toward the Vistula.
Winnica Srebrna Góra.
Region · Kraków Jura
The Vistula and the Jura uplands around Kraków: Jurassic limestone, loess and clay, and white-led vineyards, among them Srebrna Góra below the Camaldolese monastery.
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
- ≈ 50.1° 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