Sometimes you have to look back some way to understand how wines of character are created. You have to recall winds and waters that have moved sand and stones from one place to another... Thus too was Lehmont created: “Lehm [clay]” and “Mont [mountain]” indicates how the soil formed it while the mountain freshened it. The elegance and fine style of this Pinot Nero ensure that it retains its incomparable essence.

Lagröll is a ruby-red loner, one that likes to do its own thing. Its home is on a hill, exposed to the elements and remote from the hustle and bustle of St. Pauls. From here it looks westwards, down onto its relatives in the city, energetically storing the afternoon and evening sun – continuing to work when all others are long since at rest. This is a Lagrein that the debris and gravel lets grow deep and unconstrained, both by day and by night.

It has more than a century under its belt yet has lost none of its strength – quite the contrary, in fact. Sanctissimus is powerful and stately, all the way from its stocky vines to the very extremities of its ancient roots. This Pinot Bianco can stand proud among the exceptionally opulent wines, holding its own in every regard. Grown on the extremely steep slopes of the south-facing Vigna location below the church in Missian, then aged in clay amphora, Sanctissimus is truly the jewel in the winery’s crown.

Some love stories take a little more time to achieve a happy ending – and so it is with the Missianer. But, once you get to know it, it feels genuine and alive. You know exactly what you are getting, because it is as it is: an idiosyncratic, exciting, primal Vernatsch. And most definitely a faithful soul.

The Romans themselves knew how to make use of the particularly fertile soil around the village of St. Pauls, not to mention the light and the downwinds that characterise this location: Luzia is a luminous, deep Blauburgunder (Pinot Nero) that pays homage to the Roman villa whose remains still stand above the Luzia vines today.