Vintage 2024

The St. Laurent reserve 2024 grew in Ried Gestein Riff in Tattendorf. Picking was on 5 September. Late frost, drought, hail and heavy rain: 2024 tested winegrowing right across Austria, and the harvest was small as a result. A dry red, 1.000 litres in the batch.

Ried Gestein Riff

The grapes for St. Laurent reserve 2024 grow in the Ried Gestein Riff vineyard in Tattendorf, 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.

View the vineyard site on riedenkarten.at

How we care for the soil

The 2024 harvest

Der Most für St. Laurent reserve 2024 hatte 20,5 °KMW: Die Klosterneuburger Mostwaage misst, wie viel Zucker im Traubensaft steckt, ein Grad entspricht etwa einem Prozent.

What the figures say

St. Laurent reserve 2024 has 13.0 % vol. alcohol, 2.4 g/l residual sugar and 5.7 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of St. Laurent reserve 2024 is 29.9 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 31 mg/l free and 63 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 319 kJ or 76 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20915/26 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

St. Laurent reserve 2024 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step

Vintage 2023

Our St. Laurent reserve grows in Ried Gestein Riff, on Tattendorf ground. The 2023 season brought one severe storm after another in Austria, though no late frosts.

A dry red from our reserve line, dense, with fresh sour cherry and chocolate notes. There are just 1.000 litres of this wine. The St. Laurent reserve 2023 earned gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards and gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2026.

Ried Gestein Riff

The grapes for St. Laurent reserve 2023 grow in the Ried Gestein Riff vineyard in Tattendorf, 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.

View the vineyard site on riedenkarten.at

How we care for the soil

The 2023 harvest

The must for St. Laurent reserve 2023 measured 20.5 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

Awards

What the figures say

St. Laurent reserve 2023 has 13.2 % vol. alcohol, 2.1 g/l residual sugar and 5.5 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of St. Laurent reserve 2023 is 28.4 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 36 mg/l free and 58 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 321 kJ or 77 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20336/25 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

St. Laurent reserve 2023 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step

Vintage 2022

The 2022 St. Laurent reserve comes from the Ried Gestein vineyard, right here in Teesdorf. We harvested on 27 September. It is dense, with fresh sour cherry and a hint of chocolate.

The batch is 1.200 litres. The St. Laurent reserve 2022 was recognised with gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards 2026 and an award at the Thermenregion DAC Trophy 2024.

Ried Gestein

The grapes for St. Laurent reserve 2022 grow in the Ried Gestein vineyard in Teesdorf, 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.

View the vineyard site on riedenkarten.at

How we care for the soil

The 2022 harvest

Der Most für St. Laurent reserve 2022 hatte 20,5 °KMW: Die Klosterneuburger Mostwaage misst, wie viel Zucker im Traubensaft steckt, ein Grad entspricht etwa einem Prozent.

Awards

What the figures say

St. Laurent reserve 2022 has 13.2 % vol. alcohol, 1.0 g/l residual sugar and 5.7 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of St. Laurent reserve 2022 is 27.1 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 33 mg/l free and 68 mg/l total sulphur. Per 100 ml, it has 319 kJ or 76 kcal. It received the official inspection number N 20543/24 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

St. Laurent reserve 2022 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step

Vintage 2020

The St. Laurent reserve 2020 is sold out, all 1.300 litres have been drunk. At harvest the grapes had 19,5 °KMW. In 2020 the Thermenregion brought in around 66.900 hectolitres of wine, 2,2 % more than in 2019.

The St. Laurent reserve 2020 earned gold at the Lower Austria State Wine Awards, gold at the Thermenregion Wine Awards and a place in the Thermenregion Top 100 2022.

The 2020 harvest

The must for St. Laurent reserve 2020 measured 19.5 °KMW: the Klosterneuburg must scale shows how much sugar is in the grape juice, one degree being roughly one per cent.

Awards

What the figures say

St. Laurent reserve 2020 has 12.8 % vol. alcohol, 1.0 g/l residual sugar and 5.3 g/l acidity. It is made in a dry style, which under wine law means no more than 4 g/l residual sugar, or up to 9 g/l if the acidity is at most 2 g/l lower.

The sugar-free extract of St. Laurent reserve 2020 is 24.8 g/l: everything dissolved in the wine apart from water, alcohol and sugar, such as minerals, acids and tannins. In the laboratory, it showed 48 mg/l free and 71 mg/l total sulphur. It received the official inspection number N 14450/22 after being analysed in the laboratory and tasted by an official panel.

The Reserve line

St. Laurent reserve 2020 belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us. Depending on variety and vintage, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used for it.

Reserve winemaking step by step