White wine · Reserve line
Pinot gris reserve: all vintages
Pinot gris reserve is a dry white wine from the Reserve line.
This page lists five vintages of Pinot gris reserve, from 2021 to 2025.
The grapes for Pinot gris reserve grow in the Ried Rotes Kreuz vineyard.
The vintages
In the shop: Pinot gris reserve 2022 and 2023. Coming soon: 2024 and 2025. Sold out: 2021. All five vintages of Pinot gris reserve have a state inspection number.
- Pinot gris reserve 2025coming soonThermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20911/26
- Pinot gris reserve 2024coming soonThermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20330/25
- Pinot gris reserve 2023availableThermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20536/24
- Pinot gris reserve 2022availableRied Rotes Kreuz, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20844/23
- Pinot gris reserve 2021sold outNiederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20778/22
Where the wine comes from
For Pinot gris reserve, 2022 comes from the Ried Rotes Kreuz vineyard in Teesdorf. Pinot gris reserve carries the origin Niederösterreich (2021 and 2022) and Thermenregion DAC (2023, 2024 and 2025). Must weight 2021: 20 °KMW. Harvest 2022: 08.10.2022, 19,5 °KMW. Harvest 2023: 02.10.2023, 21,5 °KMW. Harvest 2024: 02.09.2024, 21,5 °KMW. Harvest 2025: 23.09.2025, 20 °KMW.
How it tastes
All vintages of Pinot gris reserve are made dry. 2022: Light gold with green tints · Ripe pear and apple, subtly floral and mineral · Elegantly structured, long finish with fine oak. 2023 and 2024: amber sheen, delicate roasted aromas, citrus notes. The acidity of Pinot gris reserve ranges from 4,8 to 5,9 g/l.
In the cellar
Pinot gris reserve matures in 300-litre barrels, where malolactic fermentation runs over the first winter.
Soil and cover crops
The vineyards of Pinot gris reserve in Teesdorf lie on pure gravel that holds hardly any water and naturally has little humus. Its rows are green all year, sown with clover, phacelia and buckwheat instead of grass. We use no herbicides.
The harvests compared
We harvested Pinot gris reserve earliest in 2024, on 2 September, and latest in 2022, on 8 October. The must weight ranged from 19.5 to 21.5 °KMW. Each vintage's batch came to between 1,000 and 1,050 litres.
The figures compared
Depending on the vintage, the residual sugar of Pinot gris reserve was between 1.0 and 8.2 g/l. Its sugar-free extract, meaning everything dissolved apart from water, alcohol and sugar, ranges from 19.9 to 24.4 g/l. The laboratory measured its total sulphur at between 87 and 94 mg/l. Each vintage only receives its official inspection number after laboratory analysis and tasting by an official panel.
The Reserve line
Pinot gris reserve belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us.
Awards
Pinot gris reserve has received 19 awards so far, for the 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 vintages. The highest went to 2021: Winner (Intervino Wine Award).