Schreckbichl winery

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Schreckbichl winery
legal form cooperative
founding 1960
Seat Girlan
management Maximilian Niedermayr (chairman), Hubert Dorfmann (managing director), Martin Lemayr (cellar master)
Number of employees 36 (as of 2015)
Branch Winemaking
Website www.schreckbichl.it

The Schreckbichl winery ( Cantina Colterenzio in Italian ) is a winery cooperative based in Girlan ( South Tyrol ). The winery has around 300 members who cultivate a total of around 300 hectares. The sites are located throughout the South Tyrolean growing area and are between 230 and 650  m slm. A total of 12 varieties are grown. 35% of the produced quantity is red wine , 65% white wine . The company employs 36 people (as of 2015).

history

The winery was founded in February 1960 by 26 winegrowers from Schreckbichl , Girlan and Frangart and began operating in the same year. The winegrowers had pushed ahead with the establishment of a new cooperative because they were not satisfied with the independent wine merchants. The prices paid out were low and did not match the quantity and quality of the grapes. A number of winegrowers in the Girlaner, Schreckbichler and Frangarter areas began to think about whether it would not be right to set up their own cooperative - with a winery and enough space to take over the grape harvest. A provisional management team decided to officially found a winery cooperative. An orchard directly on the Wine Route was chosen as the building site.

Construction work began on May 3, 1960, and after completion the new winery was able to cellar the first grapes in the autumn of the same year. In view of the tradition and quality of the local wines, “Schreckbichl” was chosen as the name of the new cooperative. Karl Ortler was elected as chairman. Hermann Weinreich and cellar master Karl Martini became the managing director of the winery.

In the following decade, the winery was expanded and in 1970 the number of members had risen to 138 and already had 16,500 hectoliters of capacity. More and more winegrowers, also from areas outside of Girlan, offered their membership. Sales, which during the first ten years were mainly handled by wholesalers and only included small deliveries of top quality wines in 7/10 l bottles, clearly tended from wholesaling to retail sales, as more and more restaurants were ordering bottled wines.

In 1971 there was a merger with the Überetscher cellar cooperative in St. Michael . The Überetscher winery brought another 62 members and 6,000 hectoliters of wine production and many detailed customers into the alliance. In the following years the company was expanded and adapted to the current technology.

In the 1980s, the Schreckbichl winery was one of the pioneers in the South Tyrolean wine industry's quality offensive under the leadership of long-time chairman and managing director Luis Raifer.

Exterior view of the Schreckbichl.jpg winery

Since 2009, Schreckbichl has implemented a concept of ecological sustainability that not only includes the vineyards, but also cellars and buildings. This includes a landscape-appropriate architecture, a new innovative wine cellar, own electricity generation through photovoltaics and hot water generation through a new heat recovery system . Thanks to this project, 60% of the electrical energy is produced by a photovoltaic system and 70% of the hot water requirement can be generated sustainably (status 2014). The winery's main sales markets are South Tyrol, the rest of Italy, Germany, the USA and Russia.

Wines

In Schreckbichl, the wines are divided into three quality lines:

  • The classic line offers varietal white and red wines with lots of fruit and typicality.
  • Selection line: The grapes for the wines in this line come from selected vineyards. The grapes are pressed separately.
  • Lafóa line: The highest quality line from Schreckbichl. The grapes come from old vines with a very low yield. In the cellar, the wines are aged in stainless steel or wooden barrels, depending on the variety.

In 2014, the top wine with the name LR came onto the market for the first time . LR is a white wine cuvée , created and composed by cellar master Martin Lemayr. The idea and impetus for this came from the former Schreckbichl chairman, managing director and South Tyrolean wine pioneer Luis Raifer.

Well-known wines and awards

The wines of the higher quality lines such as B. the Chardonnay Formigar and the Cabernet Sauvignon and the Sauvignon Lafóa . The winery has already been awarded the “Three Glasses” more than ten times, the highest award from the renowned Italian wine guide “Vini d'Italia” ( Gambero Rosso ). The wine with the most awards is the Cabernet Sauvignon Lafóa .

Individual evidence

literature

  • Heinz-Gert Woschek (eds.), Denis Duhme, Katrin Friedrichs: Wine and architecture. 1st edition. Edition DETAIL / Institute f. int. Architecture Documentation, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-920034-55-3 , pp. 52–55.

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Coordinates: 46 ° 27 ′ 50 "  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 18"  E