Sauvignon "Winkl" 2023 DOC - Kellerei Terlan

• Sauvignon "Winkl" 2023 DOC - Kellerei Terlan

Vintage 2023
Content: 0,75lt.
Vineyards "Winkl has been produced as a varietal wine since 1956. It is a succulent, delicately
fruity Sauvignon Blanc made from grapes grown in the very center of Terlano. This
location, where Terlano’s earliest wineries were established, is one of the region’s
oldest wine-growing sites and is known to have been used for that purpose by the
Romans and the Rhaetians."
Rudi Kofler
Technical data
• Alcohol content: 13.5 %vol.
• Residual sugar: 3.0 g/l
• Total acidity: 6.2

Wine
• Name: Winkl
• DOC denomination: Alto Adige Terlano
• Variety: 100% Sauvignon Blanc
• History: first vintage 1956
• Vintage: 2013
• Bottles produced: 210.000
• Yield: 56 hl/ha
• Quality line: The vineyards
Production area
• Name: Winkl
• Municipality: Terlano
• Altitude: 250 - 470 m a. s. l.
• Slope: 5 - 40%
• Orientation: South - Southwest
Wine character
• Color: intensive straw yellow with a delicate green shimmer
• Smell: Ripe fruit aromas of apricot, mandarin and passion fruit mingle with elements of
elderberry, nettle and mint.
• Taste: The fruitiness continues on the palate in combination with a fine acidity. The wine
scores with a good structure and a minerally but at the same time aromatic finish.
Simple pairings
An interesting combination in spring with boiled white asparagus in Bolzano sauce as well as
with steamed green asparagus; also with tuna carpaccio, smoked salmon and raw langoustines;
and a typical South Tyrolean choice with nettle dumplings, as well as poached trout with
vegetables or young goat’s cheese.

Cellaring and tasting advice
• Storage advice: Cool storage at constant temperatures, high level of humidity, good ventilation
and as little light as possible
• Cellar temperature: 10 - 15 °C
• Minimum maturity: 1 years
• Serving temperature: 10 - 12 °C
• Suggested glass: Glass for a young white wine

Wine making procedure
• Description: Manual harvest and selection of the grapes;
gentle whole cluster pressing and clarification of the must
by natural sedimentation; slow fermentation at a controlled
temperature in stainless steel tanks, aging on the lees in
steel tanks for 5-7 months.
• Bottling date: 08.01.2014
Soil
Winkl extends from the winery to the Rio San Pietro to the
north and is bordered by Via Meltina. The site is noted
above all for its Sauvignon wines.Soils: sandy-stony, welldrained
soils
Site area: 30 ha
Vine age: 8-12 years
Vine density: 4000-6500
Yield: 56-63 hl/ha
Number of vintners: 14

Climate
The high peaks of the main Alpine chain protect South Tyrol from the Atlantic winds and cold
northerlies, while the region benefits from the Mediterranean climate from the south. That
explains the pronounced differences between day- and night-time temperatures, which are the
key to full maturity and elegant wines.
To the south, a number of mountain massifs like the Adamello also have a protective function.
As a result, annual precipitation is only about one third of the average for the southern Alpine
foothills, and the number of hours of sunshine is higher. The climatic conditions are not unlike
those to be found in wine-growing areas like the Swiss Canton Valais.
When the sun rises behind the mountains east of Terlano on one of the year’s 300 sunny days,
it is already high in the sky as the wine-growing area has a westerly to south westerly exposure.
The lower atmospheric density permits more direct solar irradiation with less diffuse sunlight.
That increases the difference between the slopes on the sunny and shady sides of the valley.
Microclimate in Terlano
Continental climate (Cfa Köppen-Geiger)
Annual sunshine hours: ø 2135
Maximum temperatures: 38,2 °C
Average temperatures: 12,9 °C
Minimum temperatures: -10,7°C
Annual percipitation: ø 558 mm
Average global radiation: 150,1 W/m²
Winds:
- North foehn: cool and dry down-slope wind
- Ora: valley wind system from the south, bringing in air from the Po Valley