Enjoy this true spring wine at Sandahl Residence

This estate is not only passionate, rather maniac about Rhine Riesling. They believe that this noble variety has found great foundation in the volcanic soiled wine region on the north shore of Lake Balaton. The wines are gorgeous, elegant and complex, and the winery has a guest house with stunning view of the lake. A must-go place, especially in spring time, before the region is flooded by tourists.

Paradise for wine geeks

If you think that only one single grape variety makes a boring range, you are mistaken. Villa Sandahl uses different fractions of the must for their different range wines, plus the date of the harvest, the length of ageing in the bottle – all taken into consideration. What is more, all this immense amount of information is given on the website, wine geeks can deep dive into all these details.

On top of that Villa Sandahl is full of stories, and these stories are grouped according to vintages. Every vintage has a different label theme: for example, vintage 2017 is about magic. As they say: “This is the third year in a row we produce very high quality and consequently the feeling begin to get magic”. Vintage 2018 features traffic signs and vintage 2019 is all about birds. The star of our cover photo is called Starling Village, named after the hungry thieves of the vineyards.

“Hungry starlings longing for grapes always swarm above our vineyards in the autumn, to get full before moving to Africa. This vintage was extremely sunny and rain-free, so the birds refused to leave as long as we had unpicked grapes. The label theme then was decided to be “birds”. Starlings are very social and flock oriented, thus like to settle in a village of bird boxes.”
See the peculiarly detailed fact sheet of Starling Village Rhine Riesling 2019

A wide range of Villa Sandahl wines are available in Sweden at Systembolaget. Villa Sandahl wines are also available at Winelovers Webshop, they ship to every European country. In case you are interested in importing Villa Sandahl wines, contact the estate manager and winemaker, Zsolt Palkó.

House in “Genesis”

“Sandahl Rezidencia” (residence) is a 4-room guesthouse, which is also located in the central building of the Sandahl Promo house in the “Genesis” vineyard. Surrounded by a fabulous and peaceful environment, visitors are guaranteed to be recharged. The house offers the most beautiful panorama of Badacsony, one of the most picturesque slices of the Lake Balaton landscape. The rooms and furniture are of typical Scandinavia design,appreciated in whole Europe. Certainly, different tastings are also available – guests can learn about this unique way of winemaking.You can find Sandahl Rezidencia on Booking.com
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