Forty Years, Three Generations
The Pichlers focus on management that is close to nature and gentle vinification
From Karl to Josef to Johannes: for a good forty years now, the baton of
wine production has been passed on at the Bergmannhof. From father to
son to grandson, from Pichler to Pichler. But the
Pichler’s relay race with grapegrowing is substantially longer than
that. It dates back to the year 1851 in which the family came into
possession of the Bergmannhof.
As early as the seventeenth
century, the Bergmannhof in Riva di Sotto-Appiano appeared for the first
time in documents, and for nearly 170 years, the Pichler family has
been operating it. But only in 1978 did Karl Pichler and his son Josef
decide to go their own way and make wine themselves out of the grapes
from their 2.5 hectares of vineyards. From the very beginning onward,
great value was placed upon careful, prudent dealings with the vineyard
and the vines, which also meant upon a lot of work by hand. “We try to
work as close to nature as possible through the smallest targeted
interventions,” Josef Pichler explains, “and thus to get the best from
our grapes vintage after vintage.” Within that context, it comes in
useful for Pichler that within that work, tradition and innovation flow
together – in the form of knowledge from three generations.
Both
of those ensure that the care and prudence continue, in the winery as
well. “The maturation of our wines takes place for the most part in
large wooden barrels with long periods of contact with the yeast and minimal use of sulfur, and we do without unnecessary fining and filtration,” Pichler says, describing the signature at the Bergmannhof. It is the signature of three generations.
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