Winemaker Notes

Our Pinot Bianco "Kristallberg“ is a wine of great minerality. Presenting a clear, fresh straw yellow and a bouquet of fruity aromas with fresh pears and white stone fruits, as well as spicy notes with green walnuts and smoky and mineral aromas in the background. Elegant on the palate, but with juicy freshness, youthful vitality and stirring acidity, this partially barrel-fermented wine is an exciting new addition!

Winery Notes

Since the 2015 vintage, the Pinot Bianco "Kristallberg" has enriched the Elena Walch portfolio. It is Elena Walch's goal to find the ideal terroir for each grape variety to enable optimal conditions to produce multifaceted wines. It is particularly valuable and rare to have vineyards in different locations, altitudes, and exposures in a single-family estate, making it possible to respond to each individual wine and its personality. Climate change in particular brings challenges and requires winemakers to be one step ahead, and our production of Pinot Bianco also reflects this change. To guarantee a fresh style of Pinot Bianco now and for
future vineyards, a vineyard at an altitude of 600m on a small mountain terrace between Tramin and Kaltern was purchased a few years ago, and other sites at the same altitude were added later. With the Pinot Bianco "Kristallberg" a new wine from high altitude vineyards was created, which can perfectly bring to the fore the vertical, complex, and mineral typicity of the Pinot Bianco.