Wines to fall in love with!

Deep wine cellars, candlelight, sparkly wines.

May 2021

The biggest misunderstanding between the male and female genders in Manuel Vazquez Montalban's crime novels always arises when it comes to food and drink. An example: "Fried eggs with chorizo!", he enthuses - “And?", she says. Unimpressed by her boredom, he continues: "When well-pricked sausages release fat during frying, they are taken out of the pan & kept warm. The calorie bomb then comes from sizzling the eggs in the hot sausage fat. But it tastes fantastic." - she needs to articulate herself more clearly now: "If I had known that, I wouldn't have married you."

At South Tyrolean Vinum Hotels, these misunderstandings can never arise: here, worldly experienced wine waiters & waitresses give expert advice and here, master chefs bring heaven to earth. Enjoy the finest wine rarities from South Tyrol Vinum Hotels’ wine repositories in candlelit wine cellars, strengthen old friendships, initiate new love affairs and revive tired relationships ...

I drink Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory.

The Vinum Hotels South Tyrol May Wine Letter is dedicated to the fervour of wine!

South Tyrolean sparkling wine - made naturally using the classic method of fermentation in the bottle! - makes you feel merry and after a few glasses, spring fever arises in lovers. In particular, when the host's name is Sepp Reiterer, the senior chief of "Arunda" - Europe’s highest altitude sparkling wine producer. 200 years after the Benedictine Monks of Saint-Hillaire created sparkling wine in their monastery, Madame Pompadour, Louis XV’s royal mistress, finally managed to make sparkling wine respectable among the so-called high society of the time. Pompadour, who drank sparkling wine time and again & then again said while taking a whole bath in it, "Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it."

Madame Lily Bollinger's answer to a Daily Mail reporter's question about the occasions on which she drank champagne is legendary: "I drink Champagne when I’m happy and when I’m sad. Sometimes I drink it when I’m alone. When I have company, I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I’m not hungry and drink it when I am. Otherwise, I never touch it, unless I’m thirsty. "

Well, every season calls, shouts or demands suitable wines: Master cellarman and also many among the experienced sommeliers at Vinum South Tyrol Hotels swear by a rosé wine to combat the so typical springtime lethargy. The rosé here in South Tyrol is traditionally called "Kretzer" because in former times, after a being left to stand for a certain amount time, the grape must was poured through a Kretze  or wicker basket to separate the Flítschen and Stingel (berry skins and stems) from the juice. Lagrein Kretzer almost disappeared in the 1990s but can now be found again on South Tyrolean wine lists. The rugged Lagrein Kretzer of older times was indeed well liked.

Josephus Mayr from Unterganznerhof produces an above-average "regular" Lagrein Kretzer in his cellar in Bozen but he is so convinced by the potential of this so very typical South Tyrolean rosé wine that he even produces a Lagrein Spätlese! A breathtakingly fruity Lagrein Kretzer, redolent of strawberries, a true emissary of quality for the entire South Tyrolean winegrowing region!

Romance and fairy tales!

April 2021 – Hosts discover their love of wine: Andreas Nicolussi, "Stroblhof", Eppan.

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The new 2020 vintage!

March 2021 – New challenges for the South Tyrolean wine industry.

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Hotel Weingut Stroblhof at Appiano sulla Strada del Vino

  • Tour of vineyard & cellars with winegrower Andreas Nicolussi-Leck
  • Aperitif with homemade white wines
  • Living on a sixteenth-century wine estate
  • Spa treatments with beneficial products made from grapevines

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