2019 Sankt Laurent

This is the wine that originally brought us to Trapl in the first place. Planted in 2000 near the village of Sarasdorf about a 5 min drive south of the winery, the soil here is heavy with gravel, loam and loess. Grapes are hand picked and then destemmed and foot trodden. After 6-8 days of maceration, they are gently pressed into 500 liter oak barrels for 14 months of aging. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with less than 10ppm of total SO2, this is an extremely difficult grape to farm. To then make it super ethereal and delicate at 10.5% alcohol without the aid of carbonic or extended maceration, this is risk on risk behavior that pays off. Sankt Laurent is often referred to as the savage sibling of Pinot Noir, it’s more like the Victor of Aveyron of Pinot Noir – noble DNA but raised feral and wild.