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Riesling
Only in exceptional years: The essence of our winemaking tradition
A wine we only vinify in the best years – a true rarity. The grapes come from various vineyards, are harvested together and spontaneously fermented in 500-liter wooden barrels. The result: a powerful wine with impressive pressure, harmoniously underlaid with fine wood aromas. Unlike our other wines, it is allowed to mature longer in the cellar – usually 1.5 years – before being bottled in May of the following year. A wine full of character for special moments.
Terroir Ried Kirnberg
A plateau full of history and expression.
The Kirnberg presents itself more as a high plateau than a mountain, which becomes particularly evident when looking from the terrain edge onto the Danube floodplains.
Massive rocks protrude at several points, while the subsoil is mainly characterized by paragneiss and ranker soil. In the eastern part of this site, predominantly Grüner Veltliner thrives, while towards the terrain edge, mainly Riesling is found, which here unfolds its probably most beautiful expression on the southern bank.
The name ‘Churnperig’ was first mentioned as early as 1451, with the name’s relation to ‘Korn’ (grain) indicating an old mill.
Shaped by rock and mica
A fascinating interplay of paragneiss and loess.
The base of the Kirnberg, which visually resembles a table mountain, consists mainly of paragneiss. In the eastern direction, this is increasingly covered by terrace gravel from the Mindel glaciation. The described soil profile comes from the western part of the Kirnberg, where the paragneiss visibly emerges.
Paragneisses are metamorphic rocks that originally formed from sediments during the Variscan orogeny. On the Kirnberg, the rock appears similar to mica schist, rich in dark mica as well as magnesium and iron-containing biotite.
The topsoil is mixed with loess, where the dissolved lime has been washed out and partially precipitated again between the lighter layers of the mica schist.
