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Red wine · Selection line

St. Laurent selection: all vintages

St. Laurent selection is a dry red wine from the Selection line.

This page lists four vintages of St. Laurent selection, from 2021 to 2025.

The grapes for St. Laurent selection grow in the Ried Gestein and Ried Hutweide vineyards.

How we make the Selection line

The vintages

In the shop: St. Laurent selection 2022 and 2023. Coming soon: 2025. Sold out: 2021. All four vintages of St. Laurent selection have a state inspection number.

Where the wine comes from

For St. Laurent selection, 2021 comes from the Ried Gestein vineyard in Teesdorf. For St. Laurent selection, 2022 comes from the Ried Hutweide vineyard in Teesdorf. For St. Laurent selection, 2023 comes from the Ried Hutweide vineyard in Tattendorf. St. Laurent selection carries the origin Niederösterreich (2021 and 2022) and Thermenregion DAC (2023 and 2025). Harvest 2021: 29.09.2021, 20 °KMW. Harvest 2022: 27.09.2022, 20,5 °KMW. Harvest 2023: 28.09.2023, 19,5 °KMW. Harvest 2025: 19.09.2025, 20 °KMW.

How it tastes

All vintages of St. Laurent selection are made dry. 2021, 2022 and 2023: finely spicy bouquet, soft morello cherry notes. The acidity of St. Laurent selection ranges from 5,3 to 5,7 g/l.

In the cellar

After fermentation, St. Laurent selection spends twelve months in used wooden barrels.

What applies in the cellar to all lines

Soil and cover crops

The vineyards of St. Laurent selection in Tattendorf and 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.

How we care for the soil

The harvests compared

We harvested St. Laurent selection earliest in 2025, on 19 September, and latest in 2021, on 29 September. The must weight ranged from 19.5 to 20.5 °KMW. Each vintage's batch came to between 1,500 and 2,500 litres.

The figures compared

Depending on the vintage, the residual sugar of St. Laurent selection was between 1.0 and 4.2 g/l. Its sugar-free extract, meaning everything dissolved apart from water, alcohol and sugar, ranges from 26.5 to 29.3 g/l. The laboratory measured its total sulphur at between 69 and 78 mg/l. Each vintage only receives its official inspection number after laboratory analysis and tasting by an official panel.

The Selection line

St. Laurent selection belongs to our Selection line, which is allowed to mature longer than Classic.

Selection winemaking step by step

Awards

St. Laurent selection has received 8 awards so far, for the 2021, 2022 and 2023 vintages. The highest went to 2023: Gold (Thermenregion).

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