Red wine · Reserve line
St. Laurent reserve: all vintages
St. Laurent reserve is a dry red wine from the Reserve line.
This page lists five vintages of St. Laurent reserve, from 2020 to 2024.
The grapes for St. Laurent reserve grow in the Ried Gestein and Ried Gestein Riff vineyards.
The vintages
In the shop: St. Laurent reserve 2021. Coming soon: 2022, 2023 and 2024. Sold out: 2020. All five vintages of St. Laurent reserve have a state inspection number.
- St. Laurent reserve 2024coming soonRied Gestein Riff, Tattendorf · Thermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20915/26
- St. Laurent reserve 2023coming soonRied Gestein Riff, Tattendorf · Thermenregion DAC · dry · Inspection number N 20336/25
- St. Laurent reserve 2022coming soonRied Gestein, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20543/24
- St. Laurent reserve 2021availableRied Gestein, Teesdorf · Niederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 20854/23
- St. Laurent reserve 2020sold outNiederösterreich · dry · Inspection number N 14450/22
Where the wine comes from
For St. Laurent reserve, the 2021 and 2022 vintages come from Ried Gestein in Teesdorf. For St. Laurent reserve, the 2023 and 2024 vintages come from Ried Gestein Riff in Tattendorf. St. Laurent reserve carries the origin Niederösterreich (2020, 2021 and 2022) and Thermenregion DAC (2023 and 2024). Must weight at harvest 2020: 19,5 °KMW. Harvest 2021: 29.09.2021, 20,5 °KMW. Harvest 2022: 27.09.2022, 20,5 °KMW. Must weight at harvest 2023: 20,5 °KMW. Harvest 2024: 05.09.2024, 20,5 °KMW.
How it tastes
All vintages of St. Laurent reserve are made dry. 2021, 2022 and 2023: dense, fresh morello cherry and chocolate notes. The acidity of St. Laurent reserve ranges from 5,3 to 5,7 g/l.
In the cellar
For St. Laurent reserve, 20 to 80 per cent new barrels are used, depending on variety and vintage.
Soil and cover crops
The vineyards of St. Laurent reserve 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.
The harvests compared
We harvested St. Laurent reserve earliest in 2024, on 5 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 1,000 and 1,600 litres.
The figures compared
Depending on the vintage, the residual sugar of St. Laurent reserve was between 1.0 and 2.4 g/l. Its sugar-free extract, meaning everything dissolved apart from water, alcohol and sugar, ranges from 24.8 to 30.8 g/l. The laboratory measured its total sulphur at between 57 and 71 mg/l. Each vintage only receives its official inspection number after laboratory analysis and tasting by an official panel.
The Reserve line
St. Laurent reserve belongs to our Reserve line, whose wines stay in the barrel longest with us.
Awards
St. Laurent reserve has received 16 awards so far, for the 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 vintages. The highest went to 2021: Grand Gold, 96 points (Organic Wine Award).