Alto Adige

Alto Adige is home to wineries making diverse wines with a living history that reaches back centuries. Learn where to get your next great glass of wine.

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Alto Adige Wineries

Sparkling

Chardonnay

Pinot Grigio

White Blend

Red Blend

Pinot Noir

Gewürztraminer

Merlot

Brut

Sauvignon Blanc

Lagrein

Cabernet Sauvignon

Schiava

Sweet

Pinot Blanc

Founded in 1907, Cantina - Kellerei St. Pauls for generations has aimed at producing wines with clear identities that highlight the uniqueness of its terroirs. The vineyards around St. Pauls distinguish themselves through different exposures, altitudes (300 to 700 metres above sea level), and soil compositions. The winegrowing families of St. Pauls treat their vineyards with great diligence and care, utilising low-impact, sustainable practices and working them mainly by hand - 180 hectares of excellent terroirs in one of Alto Adige's most beautiful wine growing areas. 

Each grape variety can find its perfect site among porphyry, clay, sand, loess, moraine residues and dolomite rocks dropped from Gantkofel, a vertical scarp towering behind St. Pauls. The grapes pick up on the elements contained in these different soils and pass them on to the wines. The vigorous sun provides for perfectly ripened fruits, the cool fall winds from the mountains cause substantial temperature fluctuations during the maturation period that help to maintain the acidity. This results in high quality grapes that are picked by hand, according to old tradition.

The walls of the winecellar are still those constructed in 1908, and the interior, on four levels, was even in that era considered very innovative, since the entire pressing process was carried out, as it still is, by gravity fall. It houses modern stainless-steel tanks, as well as large oak ovals used for many years, and smaller oak barrels. Since July 2023, Philipp Zublasing has been the winemaker at Cantina - Kellerei St. Pauls, while Tobias Leimgruber took on sales and marketing responsibilities starting in January 2024.

Italy

Trentino-Alto Adige

Cantina - Kellerei St. Pauls

Petit Manseng

Pinot Nero

Vernatsch

Wine as an art form – discover our wine estate in South Tyrol

“The whole is more than the sum of its parts.” Aristotle’s wise words may also be applied to wine, or so we believe. Wine is the direct result of a complex combination of soil, grape type, honest work and weather. The certain “je ne sais quoi” of a wine – where does it come from? Could it be a winegrower’s lifeblood, which makes all the difference?

Pföstl wine estate is a little wine estate in South Tyrol. The love for wine is the motivation behind the fine site wines grown and produced here, in new facilities in Scena/Schenna near Merano/Meran.

The men behind Pföstl wine estate

Pföstl wine estate is a dream come true, a dream of two friends who have grown up together and have known each other since early childhood: Stefan Pföstl and Georg Weger.

Georg’s roots on his mother’s side lead back to the Pföstl family. Today, Georg works on the vineyard and processes the grapes in the cellar. The love for wine pointed him towards this profession. Stefan, on the other hand, is a host out of passion; nevertheless, his heart beats for wine. Stefan takes care of the sales and, whenever time permits, helps on the vineyard and in the cellar.

Our wines

Our wines can be divided in two lines: the vineyard line with the grape- or wine labelling and the selection line, carrying the additional label “Valpitan”. Valpitan is the nearly forgotten name of the farmland surrounding our little wine cellar. The name has Romanic roots and can be translated into “valley on steep trail”.

Weingut Pföstl

Pinot Gris

Sylvaner

Müller-Thurgau

Terlano

Santa Maddalena


MURI-GRIES is more than a winery. Within its historical walls, the daily round is guided by monastery life in combination with work in a busy cellar and the work on its own 35-hectare wine estate with vineyards in the best locations in and around Bolzano. History brought all this together more than a century ago. The routines in the vineyard and the cellar have always gone hand in hand. The work involved is highly specialized. At MURI-GRIES, the driving force is the desire to keep learning and continually enhance the quality of every single wine.

MURI-GRIES

Moscato Rosa

The "Stanglerhof" is one of the oldest farms in St.Konstantin, part of the district of Fié allo Sciliar. After a decade-log hibernation which the farm was used as a family summer house, the "Stanglerhof" is finally used again for agricultural productio, with the cultivation of black currants and the production of various syrups as the backbone. Using natural and traditional materials (straw, wood and clay) combined with a modern design language, the barn was converted into a tavern with of a different nature. The motto "local, open, fresh" holds not only for the food but also for the events held at the farm. Concerts, art exhibitions, markets and movie screenings complete "Stanglerhof" activities.

Stanglerhof

Moscato Giallo

Chardonnay Blend

Kerner

Riesling

At the Nals Margreid Winery, we believe in innovation from tradition and expression from  state-of-the-art winemaking.

Nals Margreid

Cabernet Sauvignon Blend

The "Tiefenbrunner – Schlosskellerei Turmhof" wine estate in Entiklar is in family possession since 1675 and at the moment, three generations of Tiefenbrunner’s are actively working in the winery. This underlines the high importance we attach to the art of winemaking and how it is a precious component of our family identity. We regard it as our responsibility to preserve what has been created by our ancestors and bring it forward with respect. A responsibility that is renewed day by day.

Our family owns some 25 hectares of vineyards in Entiklar/Niclara, Kurtatsch/Cortaccia and Margreid /Margrè and receive grapes grown on about 50 hectares of land by forty small scale wine growers, who have been loyal suppliers for many years now. We grow wine from 200 up to 1.000 m.a.s.l. and additionally benefit from diversified soils such as loam, porphyry, slate, granite as well as chalk gravel and various moraine soils which enables us to find for each of our thirteen grape varieties the ideal position. This variety calls for careful management of the natural resources and detailed knowledge of the character of the terroir. It is our and our enologist - Stephan Rohregger’s philosophy to retain the individual character of the varieties and locations during the winemaking process in the cellar. This is reflected in our wine portfolio which is structured in four different quality lines, starting with the entry label MERUS, continuing with the medium selection TURMHOF, and the Grand Cru LINTICLARUS and the single vineyards of the top selection VIGNA.

The CASTEL TURMHOF – estate, seat of our winery, is a place full of history and always worth a visit. 
Enjoy a glass of wine in our Bistro Castel Turmhof accompanied by cold cuts of local, seasonal delicacies. Book a tour to visit our enchanting castle park and pond with handcrafted figures and animals from Greek mythology and biblical history build by our ancestor Johann Tiefenbrunner. Or have a look at our wineshop to taste the current vintages and get competent consultation if desired. 

Did you know? Since 1910 our winery and estate are an island operation and produce energy with their very own hydropower plant. To this day we are not connected to the public power grid.






Tiefenbrunner - Schlosskellerei Turmhof

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