Thermenregion

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The heavy, partly highly calcareous soils of the hillside sites in the north-western part are very well suited to white wine production, above all for the classic grape varieties of Gumpoldskirchen.
• The commune of Tattendorf and the surrounding wine villages, alongside the red wine enclaves of Sooß and Bad Vöslau, contribute high-quality red wines thanks to their lean, gravelly soils.
• The subsoil consists of heavy, sandy and loamy, often stony limestone brown-earth soils and lime-rich gravelly soils.
• The Thermenregion is protected from cold northerly winds by the Vienna Woods (Wienerwald), with a mean annual temperature of just under 10 degrees Celsius.
• Annual rainfall amounts to 650 mm and annual sunshine duration to 1,800 hours, with relatively cold winters and dry, hot summers.
• Gravel-rich shell-limestone (Muschelkalk) soils in the south are particularly well suited to red wines, while moist loam soils in the north create ideal conditions for white wines. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• The Falstaff Weinguide describes the climate of the Thermenregion as Pannonian, with hot summers, dry autumns, and 1,800 sunshine hours per year. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• The vines are trained almost exclusively in high-culture style on a trellis wire system.
• The estates are predominantly family-run, processing mainly their own grapes and selling a large proportion directly from the winery, complemented by a small number of larger wineries and growers' cooperatives.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-AT-A0229
• Official trade body site — Regionales Weinkomitee Thermenregion