Manincor
CALDARO | BOLZANO
ALTO ADIGE
| Founded: | 1608 | |
| Owner: | Count Michael Goëss-Enzenberg | |
| Winemaker: | Helmuth Zozin | |
| Hectares under vines: | 50ha | |
| Altitude above sea level: | 230m to 550m | |
| Average annual production: | 350,000 bottles | |
| Green code: | Certified biodynamic |
WHAT THEY SAY
Its roots go back to the early 1600s but Manincor is still a magnificent example of mixing old and new, functional and beautiful, natural and industrial.
Manincor wines have a strong personality provided by the natural diversity of sites and soil compositions. Vineyards are entirely cultivated on biodynamic principles and an uncompromising determination. Count Michael Goess-Enzenberg and his wife have applied the basics of sustainability when building their new cellar and winery in 2004.
WHAT WE SAY
There are wineries you visit, and then there are wineries that quietly rearrange the way you think about a region. Manincor, perched above Lake Caldaro is one of the latter. In the Enzenberg family since 1608, the estate found its modern voice when Count Michael Goëss-Enzenberg took the reins in the early 1990s and set it on a path that has become one of the most coherent expressions of Alto Adige in the bottle.
The cellar itself tells the story — dug discreetly into the hillside by Walter Angonese, gravity-fed and almost invisible from the road, designed to leave the landscape intact and let the wines do the talking. The fifty hectares above have been farmed biodynamically since 2006, certified Respekt.
The whites are where the signature reads clearest: Eichhorn Pinot Bianco, salty and almost mountain-spring pure; Terlaner Contessa, a white blend with texture rather than weight; and Lieben Aich, a Sauvignon Blanc that has slowly become one of Italy's quietly great whites. Among the reds, Mason Pinot Nero is the calling card — perfumed, silky, properly Burgundian.
Manincor wines don't shout. They reveal themselves over the meal, the evening, the conversation — which is, frankly, the most Tyrolean thing about them.
WHAT OTHERS SAY
2023 Pinot Bianco Eichhorn: “A complex interlace of sweet herbs, white blossom and fresh fruit on the nose with a hint of vanilla in the background leads into a palate with a lovely flowing, fresh, airy quality and a delicate aromatic finish underscored by a light minerally vein. A fine-tuned wine of great elegance from this historic biodynamic estate at Caldaro.”
96pts Richard Baudains Decanter
‘Exceptional wines with a strong sense of place and lots of soul all reasonably priced and made with conviction in accordance with the criteria of biodynamic agriculture.’
Slow Wine Guide
La Rose de Manincor 2018: Decanter Magazine, Richard Baudain’s ‘Italy’s top rosés’: 16 rosato wines to try. 95 points
‘Complex, ripe fruit, dark blossom and spices on the nose. Punchy intensity on the palate, with great volume and depth and a kaleidoscopic finish. Sheer class. Biodynamic.’
WINES WE IMPORT
WHITES
La Manina IGT (Pinot Bianco/Sauvignon/Chardonnay)
Reserve della Contessa Terlaner DOC (Pinot Bianco/Chardonnay/Sauvignon)
Eichhorn DOC (Pinot Bianco)
Tannenberg DOC (Sauvignon)
Sophie DOC (Chardonnay)
ROSE/REDS
La Rose de Manincor IGT (Lagrein/Merlot/Cabernet/Pinot Nero/Petit Merdot/Tempranillo/Syrah)
Keil DOC (Schiava)
Reserve del Conte IGT (Lagrein/Merlot/Cabernet)
Mason DOC (Pinot Nero)
Rubatsch (Lagrein)Mason di Mason DOC (Pinot Nero)