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Castel Juval

Climbing to Castel Juval Unterortl Winery along the tight and winding road that slowly ascends to heights of 700 meters and up is an experience I won’t soon forget. Traversing this curving road, terraced vineyards can be seen to the left and right, leading all the way up to the winery namesake, Castel Juval. When stepping out of the car for a photo of the Windbichel vineyard, a powerful gust of freezing cold wind almost knocked me sideways. The winery is located at the entrance to the Schnalstal Valley, nearly as north as one can travel in Italy, with the Austrian border just miles away, further through the Alps. It’s the location Gisela and Martin Aurich decided to use to develop their portfolio of crisp, mineral-driven, acid-intense and seductive wines. Today, the winery is in a transition phase to be taken over entirely by Raphael and Christine Burki, established winemakers in Switzerland and New Zealand, who fell in love with the same death-defying heights, alpine climate and wines it produces. Don’t expect the rich, fruit-forward and glycerol whites that many Alto Adige wineries produce these days because Castel Juval is all about tension, grace and understatement that keeps the taster enamored and searching for every fine detail in the glass. The 2022s are stimulating and intense despite the year's warmth, and the late released 2021s show the power and depth of this excellent vintage. However, for my taste, it's the Riesling that brings me back to Castel Juval over and over again, only to find a deeper love for their high-elevation Pinot Bianco and Müller-Thurgau as well.

From Trentino-Alto Adige: Pushing the Limits (Mar 2024) by Eric Guido

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2022 Müller-Thurgau Hanns Singkmoser zu Jufal

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