An Estate with History, a Winery from the Future
Wines are made in a modern cellar and aged in an historical one
The Kreithof below the ruins of Leuchtenburg Castle
is
the heart of the Nicolussi-Leck Estate Winery in Caldaro. The estate
itself originated in the thirteenth century, but the winery, with
several floors and perfectly built right into the hillside, is highly
modern. At the Kreithof, the symbiosis between old and new has thus been
successful.
The Kreithof is around 800 years old, and for
somewhat more than a century, it has been in the possession of the
Nicolussi-Leck family which originally came from the village of Luserna
in Trentino. During the First World War, they moved to Lake Caldaro, where they made use of the perfect conditions for winegrowing to build the family’s own estate winery. Today, Jakob Nicolussi-Leckand his family tend six hectares of vineyards at an elevation of 350
meters. “Our locations are extremely varied,” says Nicolussi-Leck. “We
can choose from slopes facing east, south, or west for the ideal
orientation for each grape variety.”
Added to the ideal exposure
are a mild climate, a constant breeze from the south, warm, loamy sandy
soils, and last but not least the family’s know-how. That led in the
2010s to the decision to make wine themselves from the estate’s own
grapes. To do so, a highly modern winery was integrated into the
hillside – with all of the advantages that location and technology can
offer. The 2017 vintage was the first one to be made into wine at the
Kreithof. “The processing of the grapes takes place only with the help
of gravity,” explains the winegrower at the Nicolussi-Leck Estate Winery
in Caldaro. But the wine is aged not in the modern winery, but in the
historical cellar of the Kreithof. The traditional and the modern: at the Nicolussi-Leck Estate Winery, they meld together into perfection.
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