Winnica Rosenfeld: Riesling and Sparkling Wine from Mazovia, Poland | Cool Climate Wine Summit

But what I appreciate very much about the perspective that you have there, especially in terms of, let's say, cool climate regions.

We talk about Denmark, Sweden, Poland.

It's very new wine countries.

It's emerging wine countries.

And I think also, like, You could feel that a little bit like yesterday at the trade fair.

I think for me in general, the average level of Polish wine is extremely high.

I must say I have experienced a very, very good level from the, yeah, let's say 30 or so producers I tasted wines from.

But what you also realize is that there are for some at least still like what we call for these like children diseases right yeah of course there's a little bit of va there's a little bit of something was maybe not clean in the production process you feel suddenly like the frost damage in the 2024 vintage because they don't have the experience how to manage that how to save the vintage correctly you have winemakers who maybe like have harvested the wine like a week too late and so on and so forth right And this is what I really, it's always like a balance, right? Between learning and bringing something out and getting consumer feedback.

But we have also the problem, especially in Denmark, for example, that many people have tried Danish wine that was clearly bad or with mistakes.

And then they label it as, okay, it's Danish wine.

It's no, I don't have to drink it again, right? So I really think it's very positive for like the Polish wine scene that we have quality producers like you who say, okay, let's first learn.

and let's get it in a bottle.

And I think it's a good time that we get something in the glass, maybe, of the

sparkling.

So we got some bubbles in the glass.

Yeah.

Yes, I think that for me, the sparkling wine is very important.

I think it's a flagship for me.

But still, these are two different wines, the sparkling and the still, because the sparkling wine is more... human-made, let's say.

So it's a lot of human touch inside.

So that's why it's maybe easier to start.

The pioneer type of wine is always sparkling with a cool climate.

Because the acidity is more pronounced and it's for sparkling wine, it's something you want to have in the wine.

And of course, autolysis, so aging on the leaves, fills the gap in the wine.

Yeah, it's easier to make a sparkling wine.