The Cru Dürnsteiner Kellerberg is the paragon for a top single vineyard in the Wachau region. Vines are growing on south-eats facing terraces made of natural stones with soils of weathered Gneiss and some layers of Loess on the bottom of the slope. A long vegetation period caused by the cool airflow in the nights is inducing a very late harvest. This particular kind of microclimate is responsible for unique wines combining refinement and power in their own inimitable way. Often the wines are at once smoky-hedonic and delicate-savoury.
Grape variety: 100% Grüner Veltliner
Age of vines: ?25-35 years
Harvest: by hand end of October/ beginning of November
Fermentation and maturation: 10 months in big oak casks (6-15hl)
Bottling: August
Alcohol: 13,5-14% Vol