Wine growing in South Tyrol

South Tyrol is a well known wine growing region. Here, where the north meets the south and with them the typical characteristics of climate and earth, are growing high quality grapes. The South Tyrolean winegrowers produce excellent wines.

South Tyrolean wines

The taste of South Tyrolean wines is distinctive: you smell and taste the earth, where the wine grows, the sun and the experienced hands of the winegrowers. In South Tyrol they care about vines, which grow from 200 till 1000 m of altitude.

The original vine-sorts of South Tyrol are:

Vernatsch
Lagrein
Gewürztraminer

But the winegrowers produce also Cabernet, Merlot and Pinot.

To guarantee the high quality of the wines, the season of winegrowing begins already in January and it finishes in autumn after the vintage.