Kaltern 'Carned' Kerner, Alto Adige/Sudtirol 2022

Kellerei Kaltern Caldaro is a co-operative with approximately 440 members with a vineyard area of over 300 hectares. Due to steep slopes and varying sizes of individual vineyard plots, the vineyards are almost entirely worked by hand. Vineyards around Lake Kaltern are very small in size and most of the winemakers in the region have less than one hectare of land, for a small winemaker it is virtually impossible to make and market their own wine so the co-operative of Kaltern was set up back in 1906 with the goal of producing high quality wines which it has been doing ever since.

In 2018, Kellerei Kaltern became the first Italian wine producer to be awarded Fair`n Green`s certificate for sustainable viticulture. Fair`n Green covers both environmental and social sustainability issues. The cellarmaster here is Andrea Moser who has been in this role since 2014 and he is responsible for their wide range of cuvées, reds, whites, rosés and sparkling wines which strongly feature the indigenous grape varieties of this mountainous part of northern Italy - the Südtirol.