Just Don’t Fake It
Organic cultivation and careful maturation maintain the typical characteristics
On the sunny slopes above the Valle Isarco in Velturnois found the Garlider Estate Winery. Christian Kerschbaumer follows a
very particular philosophy here having to do with maintaining the
characteristics of the grapevine and soil in the wine. Organic cultivation is one puzzle piece of this philosophy.
But
sustainability is not the only topic which, in the eyes of
Kerschbaumer, speaks for organic growing. The effects upon the wine are
also smaller with this type of cultivation than with the conventional.
In the winery, the Valle Isarco winegrower also uses primarily
indigenous yeasts – another tile in the mosaic of an unadulterated wine.
And
incidentally, “wine” at the Garlider Estate Winery stands for white
wine. First and foremost, but not exclusively. On a small plot, the only
Pinot Noir in the Isarco Valley is grown, with the large remainder of
the vineyards bringing forth five white varieties. “In the Valle Isarco,
the white wines find hard but very good conditions that substantially
shape their character,” Kerschbaumer says with conviction.
These
conditions include warm days, fresh, cool nights, good aeration, and
soils that consist of a mixture of quartz phyllite. “All of this
together gives the whites their fruity, subtle aromas, sleek elegance,
and individual, dry tanginess,” explains the head of the Garlider Estate
Winery in Velturno.
So it is no wonder that the Garlider wines
are making headlines. For English wine critic Stuart Pigott,
Kerschbaumer is one of the ascending stars in the Valle Isarco. He
writes, “Above all, his white wines are in a special class.”
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